The Good News According to Yochanan, Chapter 11
{11:1} Now a certain man was sick, El'azar from Beit-Anyah, of the
village of Miryam and her sister, Marta. {11:2} It was that Miryam who
had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair,
whose brother, El'azar, was sick. {11:3} The sisters therefore sent to
him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is
sick." {11:4} But when Yeshua 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." {11:5} Now Yeshua loved Marta, and her sister, and El'azar.
{11:6} When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in
the place where he was. {11:7} Then after this he said to the
[1>]talmidim[<1], "Let's go into Yehudah again."
{11:8} The [2>]talmidim[<2] told him, "Rabbi, the Yehudim were just
trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"
{11:9} Yeshua 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. {11:10} But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles,
because the light isn't in him." {11:11} He said these things, and
after that, he said to them, "Our friend, El'azar, has fallen asleep,
but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."
{11:12} The [3>]talmidim[<3] therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen
asleep, he will recover."
{11:13} Now Yeshua had spoken of his death, but they thought that he
spoke of taking rest in sleep. {11:14} So Yeshua said to them plainly
then, "El'azar is dead. {11:15} I am glad for your sakes that I was
not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let's go to him."
{11:16} T'oma therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow
[4>]talmidim[<4], "Let's go also, that we may die with him."
{11:17} So when Yeshua came, he found that he had been in the tomb
four days already. {11:18} Now Beit-Anyah was near Yerushalayim, about
fifteen stadia away. {11:19} Many of the Yehudim had joined the women
around Marta and Miryam, to console them concerning their brother.
{11:20} Then when Marta heard that Yeshua was coming, she went and met
him, but Miryam stayed in the house. {11:21} Therefore Marta said to
Yeshua, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have
died. {11:22} Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will
give you." {11:23} Yeshua said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
{11:24} Marta said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the
resurrection at the last day."
{11:25} Yeshua said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He
who believes in me, though he die, yet will he live. {11:26} Whoever
lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
{11:27} She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you
are the Messiah, God's Son, he who comes into the world."
{11:28} When she had said this, she went away, and called Miryam,
her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here, and is calling
you."
{11:29} When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him.
{11:30} Now Yeshua had not yet come into the village, but was in the
place where Marta met him. {11:31} Then the Yehudim who were with her
in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Miryam, that she
rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to
the tomb to weep there." {11:32} Therefore when Miryam came to where
Yeshua 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."
{11:33} When Yeshua therefore saw her weeping, and the Yehudim
weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
{11:34} and said, "Where have you laid him?"
They told him, "Lord, come and see."
{11:35} Yeshua wept.
{11:36} The Yehudim therefore said, "See how much affection he had
for him!" {11:37} Some of them said, "Couldn't this man, who opened
the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?"
{11:38} Yeshua therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the
tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. {11:39} Yeshua
said, "Take away the stone."
Marta, 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."
{11:40} Yeshua said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed,
you would see God's glory?"
{11:41} So they took away the stone from the place where the dead
man was lying. Yeshua lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank
you that you listened to me. {11:42} I know that you always listen to
me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that
they may believe that you sent me." {11:43} When he had said this, he
cried with a loud voice, "El'azar, come out!"
{11:44} He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with
wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.
Yeshua said to them, "Free him, and let him go."
{11:45} Therefore many of the Yehudim, who came to Miryam and saw
what Yeshua did, believed in him. {11:46} But some of them went away
to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Yeshua had done.
{11:47} The chief [5>]kohanim[<5] therefore and the Pharisees gathered
a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
{11:48} If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him,
and the Romim will come and take away both our place and our nation."
{11:49} But a certain one of them, Kayafa, being [6>]kohen gadol[<6]
that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all, {11:50} 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." {11:51} Now he
didn't say this of himself, but being [7>]kohen gadol[<7] that year,
he prophesied that Yeshua would die for the nation, {11:52} and not
for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one
the children of God who are scattered abroad. {11:53} So from that day
forward they took counsel that they might put him to death. {11:54}
Yeshua therefore walked no more openly among the Yehudim, but departed
from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called
Efrayim. He stayed there with his [8>]talmidim[<8].
{11:55} Now the Pesach of the Yehudim was at hand. Many went up from
the country to Yerushalayim before the Pesach, to purify themselves.
{11:56} Then they sought for Yeshua and spoke one with another, as
they stood in the temple, "What do you think--that he isn't coming to
the feast at all?" {11:57} Now the chief [9>]kohanim[<9] and the
Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should
report it, that they might seize him.
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Footnotes:
[1] {11:7} disciples
[2] {11:8} disciples
[3] {11:12} disciples
[4] {11:16} disciples
[5] {11:47} priests
[6] {11:49} high priest
[7] {11:51} high priest
[8] {11:54} disciples
[9] {11:57} priests
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