The Death of Lazarus 1 TNT A certayne man was sicke named Lazarus of Bethania the toune 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 TNT It was that Mary which annoynted Iesus with oyntment and wyped his fete with her heere whose brother Lazarus was sicke BSB BSB: (Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was to anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet with her hair.)
3 TNT and his sisters sent vnto him sayinge. Lorde behold he whom thou lovest is sicke. BSB BSB: So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”
4 TNT When Iesus hearde that he sayd: this infirmite is not vnto deth but for the laude of God that the sonne of God myght be praysed by the reason of 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 TNT Iesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. BSB BSB: Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 TNT After he hearde that he was sicke then aboode he two dayes still in the same place where he was. BSB BSB: So on hearing that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was for two days,
7 TNT Then after that sayd he to his disciples: let us goo into Iewry agayne. BSB BSB: and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”
8 TNT His disciples sayde vnto him. Master the Iewes lately sought meanes to stone the and wilt thou goo thyther agayne? BSB BSB: “Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”
9 TNT Iesus answered: are ther not twelve houres in the daye? Yf a man walke in the daye he stombleth not because he seith the lyght of this worlde. 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 TNT But yf a man walke in the nyght he stombleth because ther is no lyght in him. BSB BSB: But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”
11 TNT This sayde he and after that he sayde vnto the: oure frende Lazarus slepeth but I goo to wake him out of slepe. 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 TNT Then sayde his disciples: Lorde yf he slepe he shall do well ynough. BSB BSB: His disciples replied, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get better.”
13 TNT How be it Iesus spake of his deeth: but they thought that he had spoke of the naturall slepe. BSB BSB: They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus.
14 TNT Then sayde Iesus vnto the playnly Lazarus is deed BSB BSB: So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,
15 TNT and I am glad for youre sakes that I was not there because ye maye beleve. Neverthelesse let vs go vnto 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 TNT Then sayde Thomas which is called Dydimus vnto the disciples: let vs also goo that we maye dye 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 TNT Then went Iesus and founde that he had lyne in his grave foure dayes already. BSB BSB: When Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus had already spent four days in the tomb.
18 TNT Bethanie was nye vnto Ierusalem aboute. xv. furlonges of BSB BSB: Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, a little less than two miles away,
19 TNT and many of the Iewes were come to Martha and Mary to comforte them over 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 TNT Martha assone as she hearde that Iesus was comynge went and met him: but Mary sate still in the housse. BSB BSB: So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him, but Mary stayed at home.
21 TNT Then sayde Martha vnto Iesus: Lorde yf thou haddest bene here my brother had not bene deed: BSB BSB: Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 TNT but neverthelesse I knowe that whatsoever thou axest of God God will geve it the. BSB BSB: But even now I know that God will give You whatever You ask of Him.”
23 TNT Iesus sayde vnto her: Thy brother shall ryse agayne. BSB BSB: “Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.
24 TNT Martha sayde vnto him: I knowe that he shall ryse agayne in the resurreccion at the last daye. BSB BSB: Martha replied, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
25 TNT Iesus sayde vnto her: I am the resurreccion and the lyfe: He that beleveth on me ye though he were deed yet shall he lyve. BSB BSB: Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
26 TNT And whosoever lyveth and belevest on me shall never dye. Beleveth thou this? BSB BSB: And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”
27 TNT She sayde vnto him: ye Lorde I beleve that thou arte Christ the sonne of god which shuld come into the worlde. 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 TNT And assone as she had so sayde she went her waye and called Marie her sister secretly sayinge: The master is come and calleth for the 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 TNT And she assone as she hearde that arose quickly and came vnto him. BSB BSB: And when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him.
30 TNT Iesus was not yet come into the toune: but was in the place where Martha met him. BSB BSB: Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.
31 TNT The Iewes then which were with her in the housse and comforted her when they sawe Mary that she rose vp hastely and went out folowed her saying: She goeth vnto the grave to wepe 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 TNT Then when Mary was come where Iesus was and sawe him she fell doune at his fete sayinge vnto him: Lorde yf thou haddest bene here my brother had not bene deed. 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 TNT Where have ye layed him? They sayde vnto him: Lorde come and se. BSB BSB: “Where have you put him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered.
36 TNT Then sayde the Iewes: Beholde howe he loved him. BSB BSB: Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
37 TNT And some of the sayde: coulde not he which openned the eyes of the blynde have made also that this man shuld not have dyed? 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 TNT Iesus agayne groned in him selfe and came to the grave. It was a caue and a stone layde on it. BSB BSB: Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
39 TNT And Iesus sayd: take ye awaye the stone. Martha the sister of him that was deed sayd vnto him: Lorde by this tyme he stinketh. For he hath bene deed foure dayes: 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 TNT Iesus sayde vnto her: Sayde I not vnto the that if thou didest beleve thou shuldest se 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 TNT Then they toke awaye the stone from the place where the deed was layde. And Iesus lyfte vp his eyes and sayde: Father I thanke the because that thou hast hearde 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 TNT I wot that thou hearest me all wayes: but because of the people that stonde by I sayde it that they maye beleve 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 TNT And when he thus had spoken he cryed with a loud voyce. Lazarus come forthe. BSB BSB: After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44 TNT And he that was deed came forth bounde hand and fote with grave bondes and his face was bounde with a napkin. Iesus sayde vnto the: loowse him and let him goo. 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 TNT Then many of the Iewes which came to Mary and had sene the thinges which Iesus dyd beleved on him. BSB BSB: Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.
46 TNT But some of them went their wayes to the Pharises and tolde them what Iesus had done. BSB BSB: But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 TNT Then gadered the hye prestes and the Pharises a counsell and sayde: what do we? This man doeth many miracles. 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 TNT Yf we let him scape thus all men will beleve on him and the Romaynes shall come and take awaye oure countre and the people. 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 TNT And one of them named Cayphas which was the hieprest that same yeare sayde vnto them: Ye perceave nothinge at all BSB BSB: But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!
50 TNT nor yet consider that it is expedient for vs that one man dye for the people and not that all the people perisshe. 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 TNT This spake he not of him selfe but beinge hye preste that same yeare he prophesied that Iesus shulde dye for the people 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 TNT and not for the people only but that he shuld gader to geder in one the chyldren of God which were scattered abroode. BSB BSB: and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.
53 TNT From that daye forth they held a counsell to geder for to put him to deeth. BSB BSB: So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.
54 TNT Iesus therfore walked no more opely amonge the Iewes: but wet his waye thence vnto a countre nye to a wildernes into a cite called Ephraim and there hauted with his 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 TNT And the Iewes ester was nye at hand and many went out of the countre vp to Ierusalem before the ester to purify them selves. 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 TNT Then sought they for Iesus and spake bitwene the selves as they stode in the temple: What thinke ye seynge he cometh not 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 TNT The hye prestes and Pharises had geven a commaundement that yf eny man knew where he were he shuld shewe it that they myght 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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