1 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.2 (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, "Lord, the one you love is sick."4 When he heard this, Jesus said, "This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it."5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.6 So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days,7 and then he said to his disciples, "Let us go back to Judea."8 "But Rabbi," they said, "a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?"9 Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world's light.10 It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light."11 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up."12 His disciples replied, "Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better."13 Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.14 So then he told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead,15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."16 Then Thomas (also known as Didymus ") said to the rest of the disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him."17 On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.18 Now Bethany was less than two miles "from Jerusalem,19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother.20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.21 "Lord," Martha said to Jesus, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died.22 But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask."23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."24 Martha answered, "I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?"27 "Yes, Lord," she replied, "I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world."28 After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. "The Teacher is here," she said, "and is asking for you."29 When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.31 When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.32 When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.34 "Where have you laid him?" he asked. "Come and see, Lord," they replied.35 Jesus wept.36 Then the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"37 But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"38 Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.39 "Take away the stone," he said. "But, Lord," said Martha, the sister of the dead man, "by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days."40 Then Jesus said, "Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?"41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me."43 When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave clothes and let him go."45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "What are we accomplishing?" they asked. "Here is this man performing many signs.48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation."49 Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, "You know nothing at all!50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish."51 He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation,52 and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.53 So from that day on they plotted to take his life.54 Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea. Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.55 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover.56 They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, "What do you think? Isn't he coming to the festival at all?"57 But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.

1 وكان انسان مريضا وهو لعارز من بيت عنيا من قرية مريم ومرثا اختها.2 وكانت مريم التي كان لعازر اخوها مريضا هي التي دهنت الرب بطيب ومسحت رجليه بشعرها.3 فارسلت الاختان اليه قائلتين يا سيد هوذا الذي تحبه مريض4 فلما سمع يسوع قال هذا المرض ليس للموت بل لاجل مجد الله ليتمجد ابن الله به.5 وكان يسوع يحب مرثا واختها ولعازر.6 فلما سمع انه مريض مكث حينئذ في الموضع الذي كان فيه يومين.7 ثم بعد ذلك قال لتلاميذه لنذهب الى اليهودية ايضا.8 قال له التلاميذ يا معلّم الآن كان اليهود يطلبون ان يرجموك وتذهب ايضا الى هناك.9 اجاب يسوع أليست ساعات النهار اثنتي عشرة. ان كان احد يمشي في النهار لا يعثر لانه ينظر نور هذا العالم.10 ولكن ان كان احد يمشي في الليل يعثر لان النور ليس فيه.11 قال هذا وبعد ذلك قال لهم. لعازر حبيبنا قد نام. لكني اذهب لأوقظه.12 فقال تلاميذه يا سيد ان كان قد نام فهو يشفى.13 وكان يسوع يقول عن موته. وهم ظنوا انه يقول عن رقاد النوم.14 فقال لهم يسوع حينئذ علانية لعازر مات.15 وانا افرح لاجلكم اني لم اكن هناك لتؤمنوا. ولكن لنذهب اليه.16 فقال توما الذي يقال له التوأم للتلاميذ رفقائه لنذهب نحن ايضا لكي نموت معه17 فلما أتى يسوع وجد انه قد صار له اربعة ايام في القبر.18 وكانت بيت عنيا قريبة من اورشليم نحو خمس عشرة غلوة.19 وكان كثيرون من اليهود قد جاءوا الى مرثا ومريم ليعزوهما عن اخيهما.20 فلما سمعت مرثا ان يسوع آت لاقته. واما مريم فاستمرت جالسة في البيت.21 فقالت مرثا ليسوع يا سيد لو كنت ههنا لم يمت اخي.22 لكني الآن ايضا اعلم ان كل ما تطلب من الله يعطيك الله اياه.23 قال لها يسوع سيقوم اخوك.24 قالت له مرثا انا اعلم انه سيقوم في القيامة في اليوم الاخير.25 قال لها يسوع انا هو القيامة والحياة. من آمن بي ولو مات فسيحيا.26 وكل من كان حيّا وآمن بي فلن يموت الى الابد. أتؤمنين بهذا.27 قالت له نعم يا سيد. انا قد آمنت انك انت المسيح ابن الله الآتي الى العالم28 ولما قالت هذا مضت ودعت مريم اختها سرّا قائلة المعلّم قد حضر وهو يدعوك.29 اما تلك فلما سمعت قامت سريعا وجاءت اليه.30 ولم يكن يسوع قد جاء الى القرية بل كان في المكان الذي لاقته فيه مرثا.31 ثم ان اليهود الذين كانوا معها في البيت يعزونها لما رأوا مريم قامت عاجلا وخرجت تبعوها قائلين انها تذهب الى القبر لتبكي هناك.32 فمريم لما أتت الى حيث كان يسوع ورأته خرّت عند رجليه قائلة له يا سيد لو كنت ههنا لم يمت اخي.33 فلما رآها يسوع تبكي واليهود الذين جاءوا معها يبكون انزعج بالروح واضطرب34 وقال اين وضعتموه. قالوا له يا سيد تعال وانظر.35 بكى يسوع.36 فقال اليهود انظروا كيف كان يحبه.37 وقال بعض منهم ألم يقدر هذا الذي فتح عيني الاعمى ان يجعل هذا ايضا لا يموت38 فانزعج يسوع ايضا في نفسه وجاء الى القبر. وكان مغارة وقد وضع عليه حجر.39 قال يسوع ارفعوا الحجر. قالت له مرثا اخت الميت يا سيد قد انتن لان له اربعة ايام.40 قال لها يسوع ألم اقل لك ان آمنت ترين مجد الله.41 فرفعوا الحجر حيث كان الميت موضوعا ورفع يسوع عينيه الى فوق وقال ايها الآب اشكرك لانك سمعت لي.42 وانا علمت انك في كل حين تسمع لي. ولكن لاجل هذا الجمع الواقف قلت. ليؤمنوا انك ارسلتني.43 ولما قال هذا صرخ بصوت عظيم لعازر هلم خارجا.44 فخرج الميت ويداه ورجلاه مربوطات باقمطة ووجهه ملفوف بمنديل. فقال لهم يسوع حلّوه ودعوه يذهب45 فكثيرون من اليهود الذين جاءوا الى مريم ونظروا ما فعل يسوع آمنوا به.46 واما قوم منهم فمضوا الى الفريسيين وقالوا لهم عما فعل يسوع.47 فجمع رؤساء الكهنة والفريسيون مجمعا وقالوا ماذا نصنع فان هذا الانسان يعمل آيات كثيرة.48 ان تركناه هكذا يؤمن الجميع به فيأتي الرومانيون ويأخذون موضعنا وامّتنا.49 فقال لهم واحد منهم. وهو قيافا. كان رئيسا للكهنة في تلك السنة. انتم لستم تعرفون شيئا.50 ولا تفكرون انه خير لنا ان يموت انسان واحد عن الشعب ولا تهلك الامة كلها.51 ولم يقل هذا من نفسه بل اذ كان رئيسا للكهنة في تلك السنة تنبأ ان يسوع مزمع ان يموت عن الامّة.52 وليس عن الامة فقط بل ليجمع ابناء الله المتفرقين الى واحد53 فمن ذلك اليوم تشاوروا ليقتلوه.54 فلم يكن يسوع ايضا يمشي بين اليهود علانية بل مضى من هناك الى الكورة القريبة من البرية الى مدينة يقال لها افرايم ومكث هناك مع تلاميذه.55 وكان فصح اليهود قريبا. فصعد كثيرون من الكور الى اورشليم قبل الفصح ليطهروا انفسهم.56 فكانوا يطلبون يسوع ويقولون فيما بينهم وهم واقفون في الهيكل ماذا تظنون. هل هو لا يأتي الى العيد.57 وكان ايضا رؤساء الكهنة والفريسيون قد اصدروا امرا انه ان عرف احد اين هو فليدل عليه لكي يمسكوه