1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. 2 It was that Mary who had 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 for whom you have great affection is sick."

4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it." 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. 6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was. 7 Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let’s go into Judea again."

8 The disciples asked him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?"

9 Jesus answered, "Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him." 11 He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."

12 The disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."

13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep. 14 So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead. 15 I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him."

16 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let’s 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 near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away. 19 Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother. 20 Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house. 21 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. 22 Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you."

23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."

24 Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."

25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. 26 Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

27 She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world."

28 When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here and is calling you."

29 When she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him. 30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him. 31 Then the Jews 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, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there."

32 Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died."

33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled, 34 and said, "Where have you laid him?"

They told him, "Lord, come and see."

35 Jesus wept.

36 The Jews therefore said, "See how much affection he had for him!" 37 Some of them said, "Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?"

38 Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. 39 Jesus said, "Take away the stone."

Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days."

40 Jesus said to her, "Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?"

41 So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me. 42 I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me." 43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

44 He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.

Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go."

45 Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in 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 are we doing? For this man does many signs. 48 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in 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, "You know nothing at all, 50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish." 51 Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. 53 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death. 54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

55 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves. 56 Then they sought for Jesus and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?" 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize 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 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.