1 Now there was a certain {man} sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister.2 It was {the} Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.3 The sisters therefore sent to 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 by it.5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.6 When therefore he heard, He is sick, he remained two days then in the place where he was.7 Then after this he says to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.8 The disciples say to him, Rabbi, {even but} now the Jews sought to stone thee, and goest thou thither again?9 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;10 but if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.11 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.12 The disciples therefore said to him, Lord, if he be fallen asleep, he will get well.13 But Jesus spoke of his death, but *they* thought that he spoke of the rest of sleep.14 Jesus therefore then said to them plainly, Lazarus has died.15 And I rejoice on your account that I was not there, in order that ye may believe. But let us go to him.16 Thomas therefore, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, Let *us* also go, that we may die with him.17 Jesus therefore {on} arriving found him to have been four days already in the tomb.18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia off,19 and many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, that they might console them concerning their brother.20 Martha then, when she heard Jesus is coming, went to meet him; but Mary sat in the house.21 Martha therefore said to Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;22 but even now I know, that whatsoever thou shalt ask of God, God will give thee.23 Jesus says to her, Thy brother shall rise again.24 Martha says to him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day.25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believes on me, though he have died, shall live;26 and every one who lives and believes on me shall never die. Believest thou this?27 She says to him, Yea, Lord; I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who should come into the world.28 And having said this, she went away and called her sister Mary secretly, saying, The teacher is come and calls thee.29 She, when she heard {that}, rises up quickly and comes to him.30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha came to meet him.31 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.32 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.33 Jesus therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit, and was troubled,34 and said, Where have ye put him? They say to him, Lord, come and see.35 Jesus wept.36 The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him!37 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?38 Jesus therefore, again deeply moved in himself, comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.39 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}.40 Jesus says to her, Did I not say to thee, that if thou shouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?41 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;42 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.43 And having said this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.44 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.45 Many therefore of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he had done, believed on him;46 but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.47 The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many signs.48 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.49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing50 nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.51 But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;52 and not for the nation only, but that he should also gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.53 From that day therefore they took counsel that they might kill him.54 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.55 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.56 They sought therefore Jesus, and said among themselves, standing in the temple, What do ye think? that he will not come to the feast?57 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.

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 ontstel34 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 nie50 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.