The Death of Lazarus 1 DBY Now there was a certain man sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister. BSB BSB: At this time a man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 DBY It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. BSB BSB: (Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was to anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet with her hair.)
3 DBY The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. BSB BSB: So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”
4 DBY But when Jesus heard it , he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it. BSB BSB: When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
5 DBY Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. BSB BSB: Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 DBY When therefore he heard, He is sick, he remained two days then in the place where he was. BSB BSB: So on hearing that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was for two days,
7 DBY Then after this he says to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again. BSB BSB: and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”
8 DBY The disciples say to him, Rabbi, even but now the Jews sought to stone thee, and goest thou thither again? BSB BSB: “Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”
9 DBY Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walk in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world; BSB BSB: Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.
10 DBY but if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. BSB BSB: But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”
11 DBY These things said he; and after this he says to them, Lazarus, our friend, is fallen asleep, but I go that I may awake him out of sleep. BSB BSB: After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”
12 DBY The disciples therefore said to him, Lord, if he be fallen asleep, he will get well. BSB BSB: His disciples replied, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get better.”
13 DBY But Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that he spoke of the rest of sleep. BSB BSB: They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus.
14 DBY Jesus therefore then said to them plainly, Lazarus has died. BSB BSB: So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,
15 DBY And I rejoice on your account that I was not there, in order that ye may believe. But let us go to him. BSB BSB: and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
16 DBY Thomas therefore, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him. BSB BSB: Then Thomas called Didymus said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”
Jesus Comforts Martha and Mary 17 DBY Jesus therefore on arriving found him to have been four days already in the tomb. BSB BSB: When Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus had already spent four days in the tomb.
18 DBY Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia off, BSB BSB: Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, a little less than two miles away,
19 DBY and many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, that they might console them concerning their brother. BSB BSB: and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother.
20 DBY Martha then, when she heard Jesus is coming, went to meet him; but Mary sat in the house. BSB BSB: So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him, but Mary stayed at home.
21 DBY Martha therefore said to Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died; BSB BSB: Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 DBY but even now I know, that whatsoever thou shalt ask of God, God will give thee. BSB BSB: But even now I know that God will give You whatever You ask of Him.”
23 DBY Jesus says to her, Thy brother shall rise again. BSB BSB: “Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.
24 DBY Martha says to him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day. BSB BSB: Martha replied, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
25 DBY Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believes on me, though he have died, shall live; BSB BSB: Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
26 DBY and every one who lives and believes on me shall never die. Believest thou this? BSB BSB: And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”
27 DBY She says to him, Yea, Lord; I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who should come into the world. BSB BSB: “Yes, Lord,” she answered, “I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”
28 DBY And having said this, she went away and called her sister Mary secretly, saying, The teacher is come and calls thee. BSB BSB: After Martha had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside to tell her, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”
29 DBY She, when she heard that , rises up quickly and comes to him. BSB BSB: And when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him.
30 DBY Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha came to meet him. BSB BSB: Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.
31 DBY The Jews therefore who were with her in the house and consoling her, seeing Mary that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, She goes to the tomb, that she may weep there. BSB BSB: When the Jews who were in the house consoling Mary saw how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.
32 DBY Mary therefore, when she came where Jesus was, seeing him, fell at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. BSB BSB: When Mary came to Jesus and saw Him, she fell at His feet and said, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”
34 DBY and said, Where have ye put him? They say to him, Lord, come and see. BSB BSB: “Where have you put him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered.
36 DBY The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him! BSB BSB: Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
37 DBY And some of them said, Could not this man , who has opened the eyes of the blind man , have caused that this man also should not have died? BSB BSB: But some of them asked, “Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept Lazarus from dying?”
Jesus Raises Lazarus (Acts 9:36–43)
38 DBY Jesus therefore, again deeply moved in himself, comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. BSB BSB: Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
39 DBY Jesus says, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead, says to him, Lord, he stinks already, for he is four days there . BSB BSB: “Take away the stone,” Jesus said. “Lord, by now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man. “It has already been four days.”
40 DBY Jesus says to her, Did I not say to thee, that if thou shouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? BSB BSB: Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
41 DBY They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifted up his eyes on high and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me; BSB BSB: So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
42 DBY but I knew that thou always hearest me; but on account of the crowd who stand around I have said it , that they may believe that thou hast sent me. BSB BSB: I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.”
43 DBY And having said this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. BSB BSB: After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44 DBY And the dead came forth, bound feet and hands with graveclothes, and his face was bound round with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, Loose him and let him go. BSB BSB: The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.
The Plot to Kill Jesus (Matthew 26:1–5; Mark 14:1–2; Luke 22:1–2)
45 DBY Many therefore of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he had done, believed on him; BSB BSB: Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.
46 DBY but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. BSB BSB: But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 DBY The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many signs. BSB BSB: Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
48 DBY If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation. BSB BSB: If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
49 DBY But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing BSB BSB: But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!
50 DBY nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish. BSB BSB: You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
51 DBY But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation; BSB BSB: Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,
52 DBY and not for the nation only, but that he should also gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad. BSB BSB: and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.
53 DBY From that day therefore they took counsel that they might kill him. BSB BSB: So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.
54 DBY Jesus therefore walked no longer openly among the Jews, but went away thence into the country near the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and there he sojourned with the disciples. BSB BSB: As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.
55 DBY But the passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves. BSB BSB: Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.
56 DBY They sought therefore Jesus, and said among themselves, standing in the temple, What do ye think? that he will not come to the feast? BSB BSB: They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? Will He come to the feast at all?”
57 DBY Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment that if any one knew where he was, he should make it known, that they might take him. BSB BSB: But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.
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