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 named Lazarus was ill; he was of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 (The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who put perfumed oil on the Lord and made his feet dry with her hair.)
3 So the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, your dear friend is ill.
4 When this came to his ears, Jesus said, The end of this disease is not death, but the glory of God, so that the Son of God may have glory because of it.
5 Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 So when the news came to him that Lazarus was ill, he did not go from the place where he was for two days.
7 Then after that time he said to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.
8 The disciples said to him, Master, the Jews were attempting only the other day to have you stoned, and are you going back there again?
9 Then Jesus said in answer, Are there not twelve hours in the day? A man may go about in the day without falling, because he sees the light of this world.
10 But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him.
11 These things said he: and after that he said to them, Lazarus our friend is at rest; but I go so that I may make him come out of his sleep.
12 Then his disciples said to him, Lord, if he is resting he will get well.
13 Jesus, however, was talking of his death: but they had the idea that he was talking about taking rest in sleep.
14 Then Jesus said to them clearly, Lazarus is dead.
15 And because of you I am glad I was not there, so that you may have faith; but let us go to him.
16 Then Thomas, who was named Didymus, said to the other disciples, Let us go so that we may be with him in death.
17 Now when Jesus came, he made the discovery that Lazarus had been put into the earth four days before.
18 Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, about two miles away;
19 And a number of Jews had come to Martha and Mary to give them comfort about their brother.
20 When Martha had the news that Jesus was on the way, she went out to him, but Mary did not go from the house.
21 Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be dead.
22 But I am certain that, even now, whatever request you make to God, God will give it to you.
23 Jesus said to her, Your brother will come to life again.
24 Martha said to him, I am certain that he will come to life again when all come back from the dead at the last day.
25 Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;
26 And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?
27 She said to him, Yes, Lord: my faith is that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.
28 And having said this, she went away and said secretly to her sister Mary, The Master is here and has sent for you.
29 And Mary, hearing this, got up quickly and went to him.
30 Now Jesus had not at this time come into the town, but was still in the place where Martha had seen him.
31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house, comforting her, when they saw Mary get up quickly and go out, went after her in the belief that she was going to the place of the dead and would be weeping there.
32 When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she went down at his feet, saying, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be dead.
33 And when Jesus saw her weeping, and saw the Jews weeping who came with her, his spirit was moved and he was troubled,
34 And said, Where have you put him? They said, Come and see, Lord.
35 And Jesus himself was weeping.
36 So the Jews said, See how dear he was to him!
37 But some of them said, This man, who made open the eyes of the blind man, was he not able to keep his friend from death?
38 So Jesus, deeply troubled in heart, came to the place of the dead. It was a hole in the rock, and a stone was over the opening.
39 Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said, Lord, by this time the body will be smelling, for he has been dead four days.
40 Jesus said to her, Did I not say to you that if you had faith you would see the glory of God?
41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus, looking up to heaven, said, Father, I give praise to you for hearing me.
42 I was certain that your ears are at all times open to me, but I said it because of these who are here, so that they may see that you sent me.
43 Then he said in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out!
44 And he who was dead came out, with linen bands folded tightly about his hands and feet, and a cloth about his face. Jesus said to them, Make him free and let him go.
45 Then a number of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen the things which Jesus did had belief in him.
46 But some of them went to the Pharisees with the news of what Jesus had done.
47 Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs.
48 If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation.
49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You have no knowledge of anything;
50 You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction.
51 He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation;
52 And not for that nation only, but for the purpose of uniting in one body the children of God all over the world.
53 And from that day they took thought together how to put him to death.
54 So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for some time with the disciples.
55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and numbers of people went up from the country to Jerusalem to make themselves clean before the Passover.
56 They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another while they were in the Temple, What is your opinion? Will he not come to the feast?
57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone had knowledge where he was, he was to give them word, so that they might take him.