1 En daar was 'n man siek, Lasarus van Bet nië, die dorp van Maria en haar suster Martha.

2 En dit was Maria wat die Here gesalf het met salf en sy voete afgedroog het met haar hare, wie se broer, Lasarus, siek was.

3 Die susters het toe na Hom gestuur en gesê: Here, hy vir wie U liefhet, is siek.

4 En toe Jesus dit hoor, sê Hy: Hierdie siekte is nie tot die dood toe nie, maar tot die heerlikheid van God, sodat die Seun van God daardeur verheerlik kan word.

5 En Jesus het Martha en haar suster en Lasarus liefgehad.

6 En toe Hy hoor dat hy siek is, het Hy twee dae vertoef in die plek waar Hy was.

7 Eers daarna sê Hy aan die dissipels: Laat ons weer na Jud,a gaan.

8 Die dissipels sê vir Hom: Rabbi, die Jode het onlangs probeer om U te stenig, en gaan U weer daarnatoe?

9 Jesus antwoord: Is daar nie twaalf ure in die dag nie? As iemand in die dag wandel, stamp hy hom nie, omdat hy die lig van hierdie wêreld sien.

10 Maar as iemand in die nag wandel, stamp hy hom, omdat die lig nie in hom is nie.

11 Dit het Hy gespreek; en daarna sê Hy vir hulle: Lasarus, ons vriend, slaap; maar Ek gaan om hom wakker te maak.

12 Sy dissipels sê toe: Here, as hy slaap, sal hy gesond word.

13 Maar Jesus het gespreek van sy dood, terwyl hulle gedink het dat Hy van die rus van die slaap spreek.

14 En toe sê Jesus vir hulle ronduit: Lasarus is dood.

15 En Ek is bly om julle ontwil dat Ek nie daar was nie, sodat julle kan glo. Maar laat ons na hom toe gaan.

16 En Thomas, wat D¡dimus genoem word, sê vir sy mededissipels: Laat ons ook gaan om saam met Hom te sterwe.

17 Toe Jesus dan gekom het, het Hy gevind dat hy al vier dae in die graf was.

18 En Bet nië was naby Jerusalem, omtrent twee myl daarvandaan.

19 En baie van die Jode het al by Martha en Maria gekom om hulle oor hul broer te troos.

20 En toe Martha hoor dat Jesus kom, het sy Hom tegemoetgegaan. Maar Maria het in die huis bly sit.

21 En Martha sê vir Jesus: Here, as U hier gewees het, sou my broer nie gesterf het nie.

22 Maar selfs nou weet ek dat alles wat U van God vra, God U sal gee.

23 Jesus sê vir haar: Jou broer sal opstaan.

24 Martha antwoord Hom: Ek weet dat hy sal opstaan in die opstanding in die laaste dag.

25 Jesus sê vir haar: Ek is die opstanding en die lewe; wie in My glo, sal lewe al het hy ook gesterwe;

26 en elkeen wat lewe en in My glo, sal nooit sterwe tot in ewigheid nie. Glo jy dit?

27 Sy antwoord Hom: Ja, Here, ek glo dat U die Christus is, die Seun van God, wat in die wêreld sou kom.

28 En nadat sy dit gesê het, gaan sy en roep Maria, haar suster, stilletjies en sê: Die Meester is hier en Hy roep jou.

29 Sy het, toe sy dit hoor, vinnig opgestaan en na Hom toe gegaan.

30 En Jesus het nog nie in die dorp gekom nie, maar was op die plek waar Martha Hom tegemoetgegaan het.

31 En toe die Jode wat by haar in die huis was en haar getroos het, sien dat Maria vinnig opstaan en uitgaan, het hulle haar gevolg en gesê: Sy gaan na die graf om daar te ween.

32 En toe Maria kom waar Jesus was en Hom sien, val sy aan sy voete neer en sê vir Hom: Here, as U hier gewees het, sou my broer nie gesterf het nie.

33 Toe Jesus haar dan sien ween en die Jode wat saam met haar gekom het, ook sien ween, het Hy geweldig bewoë geword in sy gees en Hom ontstel

34 en gesê: Waar het julle hom neergelê? Hulle sê vir Hom: Here, kom kyk.

35 Jesus het geween.

36 Die Jode sê toe: Kyk, hoe lief Hy hom gehad het!

37 En sommige van hulle sê: Kon Hy wat die oë van die blinde man geopen het, nie maak dat hierdie man ook nie gesterf het nie?

38 En Jesus het weer in Homself geweldig bewoë geword en by die graf gekom. En dit was 'n spelonk, en 'n steen het daarteen gelê.

39 Jesus sê: Neem die steen weg. Martha, die suster van die oorledene, sê vir Hom: Here, hy ruik al, want hy is al vier dae dood.

40 Jesus sê vir haar: Het Ek nie vir jou gesê, as jy glo, sal jy die heerlikheid van God sien nie?

41 Hulle neem toe die steen weg waar die oorledene lê. En Jesus het sy oë opgeslaan en gesê: Vader, Ek dank U dat U My verhoor het;

42 en Ek het geweet dat U My altyd verhoor, maar ter wille van die skare wat rondom staan, het Ek dit gesê, sodat hulle kan glo dat U My gestuur het.

43 En nadat Hy dit gesê het, het Hy met 'n groot stem geroep: Lasarus, kom uit!

44 En die oorledene het uitgekom, aan hande en voete met grafdoeke gebind, en sy gesig was toegedraai met 'n doek. Jesus sê vir hulle: Maak hom los en laat hom gaan.

45 En baie van die Jode wat na Maria gekom het en aanskouers was van wat Jesus gedoen het, het in Hom geglo.

46 Maar sommige van hulle het na die Fariseërs gegaan en hulle vertel wat Jesus gedoen het.

47 En die owerpriesters en die Fariseërs het die Raad byeengeroep en gesê: Wat sal ons doen? -- want hierdie man doen baie tekens.

48 As ons Hom so laat begaan, sal almal in Hom glo; en die Romeine sal kom en ons land en ons nasie albei afneem.

49 En een van hulle, K jafas, wat daardie jaar hoëpriester was, sê vir hulle: Julle weet niks nie

50 en dink nie daaraan dat dit vir ons voordelig is dat een man vir die volk sterwe en nie die hele nasie omkom nie.

51 En dit het hy nie uit homself gesê nie; maar omdat hy daardie jaar hoëpriester was, het hy geprofeteer dat Jesus vir die volk sou sterwe.

52 En nie alleen vir die volk nie, maar ook om die verstrooide kinders van God tot 'n eenheid saam te voeg.

53 Van die dag af het hulle toe saam beraadslaag om Hom om die lewe te bring.

54 Daarom het Jesus nie meer in die openbaar onder die Jode gewandel nie, maar daarvandaan weggegaan na die streek naby die woestyn, na 'n stad met die naam van Efraim. En daar het Hy vertoef met sy dissipels.

55 En die pasga van die Jode was naby; en baie het uit die landstreek na Jerusalem opgegaan voor die pasga om hulle te reinig.

56 En hulle het Jesus gesoek; en terwyl hulle in die tempel staan, sê hulle vir mekaar: Wat dink julle, sal Hy nie na die fees kom nie?

57 En die owerpriesters en die Fariseërs het ook 'n bevel gegee dat as iemand wis waar Hy was, hy dit moes bekend maak, sodat hulle Hom gevange kon neem.

1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 And it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. 3 The sisters therefore sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. 4 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 thereby. 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. 6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he abode at that time two days in the place where he was. 7 Then after this he saith to the disciples, Let us go into Judæa again. 8 The disciples say unto him, Rabbi, the Jews were but now seeking to stone thee; and goest thou thither again? 9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. 10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him. 11 These things spake he: and after this he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. 12 The disciples therefore said unto him, Lord, if he is fallen asleep, he will recover. 13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death: but they thought that he spake of taking rest in sleep. 14 Then Jesus therefore said unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. 15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him. 16 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said unto his fellow-disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.

17 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already. 18 Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off; 19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother. 20 Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary still sat in the house. 21 Martha therefore said unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. 22 And even now I know that, whatsoever thou shalt ask of God, God will give thee. 23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. 24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. 25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live; 26 and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die. Believest thou this? 27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, even he that cometh into the world. 28 And when she had said this, she went away, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Teacher is here, and calleth thee. 29 And she, when she heard it, arose quickly, and went unto him. 30 (Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met him.) 31 The Jews then who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going unto the tomb to weep there. 32 Mary therefore, when she came where Jesus was, and saw him, fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. 33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, 34 and said, Where have ye laid him? They say unto him, Lord, come and see. 35 Jesus wept. 36 The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him! 37 But some of them said, Could not this man, who opened the eyes of him that was blind, have caused that this man also should not die? 38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. 39 Jesus saith, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time the body decayeth; for he hath been dead four days. 40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou believedst, thou shouldest see the glory of God? 41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou heardest me. 42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the multitude that standeth around I said it, that they may believe that thou didst send me. 43 And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. 44 He that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

45 Many therefore of the Jews, who came to Mary and beheld that which he did, believed on him. 46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.

47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many signs. 48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation. 49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, 50 nor do ye take account that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. 51 Now this he said not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation; 52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God that are scattered abroad. 53 So from that day forth they took counsel that they might put him to death.

54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed thence into the country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there he tarried with the disciples. 55 Now the passover of the Jews was at hand: and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, to purify themselves. 56 They sought therefore for Jesus, and spake one with another, as they stood in the temple, What think ye? That he will not come to the feast? 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment, that, if any man knew where he was, he should show it, that they might take him.