John 11:23–57

²³Jesus saith to her, ‘Thy brother shall rise again.’ ²⁴Martha saith to him, ‘I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;’ ²⁵Jesus said to her, ‘I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live; ²⁶and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die—to the age; ²⁷believest thou this?’ she saith to him, ‘Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.’ ²⁸And these things having said, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, ‘The Teacher is present, and doth call thee;’ ²⁹she, when she heard, riseth up quickly, and doth come to him; ³⁰and Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was in the place where Martha met him; ³¹the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying—‘She doth go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.’ ³²Mary, therefore, when she came where Jesus was, having seen him, fell at his feet, saying to him, ‘Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;’

³³Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said, ³⁴‘Where have ye laid him?’ they say to him, ‘Sir, come and see;’ ³⁵Jesus wept. ³⁶The Jews, therefore, said, ‘Lo, how he was loving him!’ ³⁷and certain of them said, ‘Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?’ ³⁸Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it, ³⁹Jesus saith, ‘Take ye away the stone;’ the sister of him who hath died—Martha—saith to him, ‘Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;’ ⁴⁰Jesus saith to her, ‘Said I not to thee, that if thou mayest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?’ ⁴¹They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, ‘Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me; ⁴²and I knew that Thou always dost hear me, but, because of the multitude that is standing by, I said it, that they may believe that Thou didst send me.’ ⁴³And these things saying, with a loud voice he cried out, ‘Lazarus, come forth;’ ⁴⁴and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his visage with a napkin was bound about; Jesus saith to them, ‘Loose him, and suffer to go.’

⁴⁵Many, therefore, of the Jews who came unto Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in him; ⁴⁶but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did; ⁴⁷the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, ‘What may we do? because this man doth many signs? ⁴⁸if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.’ ⁴⁹and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, ‘Ye have not known anything, ⁵⁰nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.’ ⁵¹And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation, ⁵²and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one. ⁵³From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him; ⁵⁴Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples. ⁵⁵And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves; ⁵⁶they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, ‘What doth appear to you—that he may not come to the feast?’ ⁵⁷and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew it, so that they may seize him.

Chapter 12