The Death of Lazarus 1 UEB Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. BSB BSB: At this time a man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 UEB It was Mary who anointed the Lord with myrrh 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 UEB The sisters then sent for Jesus, saying, "Lord, see, he whom you love is sick." BSB BSB: So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”
4 UEB When Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but instead it is for the glory of God so 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 UEB Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. BSB BSB: Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 UEB So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, Jesus stayed two more days in the place where he was. BSB BSB: So on hearing that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was for two days,
7 UEB Then after this, he said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judea again." BSB BSB: and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”
8 UEB The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, right now the Jews are trying to stone you, and you are going back there again?" BSB BSB: “Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”
9 UEB Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours of light in a day? If someone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by 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 UEB However, if he walks at night, he will stumble because the light is not in him." BSB BSB: But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”
11 UEB He said these things, and after these things, he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may wake 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 UEB The disciples therefore said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover." BSB BSB: His disciples replied, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get better.”
13 UEB Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he was speaking about the sleep of resting. BSB BSB: They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus.
14 UEB Then Jesus said to them plainly, "Lazarus is dead. BSB BSB: So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,
15 UEB I am glad, for your sakes, that I was not there so that you may believe. 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 UEB Thomas, who was called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go so that we may die with Jesus." 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 UEB When Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. BSB BSB: When Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus had already spent four days in the tomb.
18 UEB Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away. BSB BSB: Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, a little less than two miles away,
19 UEB Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them about 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 UEB Then Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him, but Mary was sitting 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 UEB Martha then said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. BSB BSB: Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 UEB Even now, I know that whatever you ask from God, he will give to you." BSB BSB: But even now I know that God will give You whatever You ask of Him.”
23 UEB Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." BSB BSB: “Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.
24 UEB Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day." BSB BSB: Martha replied, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
25 UEB Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, even if he dies, will 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 UEB and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" BSB BSB: And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”
27 UEB She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming 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 UEB When she had said this, she went away and called her sister Mary privately. She said, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you." 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 UEB When she heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. BSB BSB: And when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him.
30 UEB Now Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met him. BSB BSB: Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.
31 UEB So when the Jews, who were with her in the house and who were comforting her, saw Mary getting up quickly and going out, they followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to 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 UEB When Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have 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 UEB he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see." BSB BSB: “Where have you put him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered.
36 UEB Then the Jews said, "See how much he loved Lazarus!" BSB BSB: Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
37 UEB But some of them said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes of a blind man, also have made this man not die?" 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 UEB Then Jesus again, being deeply moved in himself, went to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. BSB BSB: Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
39 UEB Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of Lazarus, the one who had died, said to Jesus, "Lord, by this time the body will be decaying, for he has been dead for four days." 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 UEB Jesus said to her, "Did I not say to you that, if you believed, you would 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 UEB So they took away the stone. Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to 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 UEB I knew that you always listen to me, but it is because of the crowd that is standing around me that I said this, so that they may believe that you have 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 UEB After he had said this, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" BSB BSB: After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44 UEB The dead man came out; his feet and hands were bound with cloths, and his face was bound about with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Untie 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 UEB Then many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him. BSB BSB: Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.
46 UEB But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things that Jesus had done. BSB BSB: But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 UEB Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council together and said, "What will we do? 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 UEB If we leave him alone like this, all will believe in him; 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 UEB However, a certain man among them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You 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 UEB You do not consider that it is better for you that one man dies for the people than that the whole nation perishes." 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 UEB Now this he said not from himself. Instead, being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should 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 UEB and not only for the nation, but so that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered together into one. BSB BSB: and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.
53 UEB So from that day onward they planned how to put Jesus to death. BSB BSB: So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.
54 UEB No longer did Jesus walk openly among the Jews, but he departed from there into the country near to the wilderness into a town called Ephraim. There he stayed 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 UEB Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country before the Passover in order to 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 UEB They were looking for Jesus, and speaking one with another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? That he will not come to the festival?" 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 UEB Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given an order that if anyone knew where Jesus was, he should report it so that they might seize 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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