John 11 - Lexham English Bible (LEB)

Lazarus Dies

11 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. ² (Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) ³ So the sisters sent word^[a] to him, saying, “Lord, behold, the one whom you love is sick.” ⁴ And when he^[b] heard it,^[c] Jesus said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” ⁵ (Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.) ⁶ So when he heard that he was sick, then he remained in the place where^[d] he was two days.

⁷ Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” ⁸ The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were seeking just now to stone you, and are you going there again?” ⁹ Jesus replied, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks around in the daylight, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰ But if anyone walks around in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. ¹¹ He said these things, and after this he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I can awaken him.” ¹² So the disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.” ¹³ (Now Jesus had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about real sleep.^[e]) ¹⁴ So Jesus then said to them plainly, “Lazarus has died, ¹⁵ and I am glad for your sake^[f] that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” ¹⁶ Then Thomas (the one who is called Didymus)^[g] said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go also, so that we may die with him.”

Jesus the Resurrection and the Life

¹⁷ So when he^[h] arrived, Jesus found he had already been four days in the tomb. ¹⁸ (Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia.^{[i] 19} So many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary in order to console them concerning their^[j] brother.) ²⁰ Now Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house. ²¹ So Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. ²² Even^[k] now I know that whatever you ask God, God will grant 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. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live, ²⁶ and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die forever.^[l] Do you believe this?” ²⁷ She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who comes into the world.”

Jesus Weeps

²⁸ And when she^[m] had said this, she went and called her sister Mary privately, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” ²⁹ So that one, when she heard it,^[n] got up quickly and went to him. ³⁰ (Now Jesus has not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha went to meet him.) ³¹ So the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they^[o] saw Mary—that she stood up quickly and went out—followed her, because they^[p] thought that she was going to the tomb in order to weep there.

³² Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was and^[q] saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” ³³ Then Jesus, when he saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled within himself. ³⁴ And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” ³⁵ Jesus wept. ³⁶ So the Jews were saying, “See how he loved him!” ³⁷ But some of them said, “Was not this man who opened the eyes of the blind able to do something^[r] so that this man also would not have died?”

Lazarus Is Raised

³⁸ Then Jesus, deeply moved within himself again, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying on it. ³⁹ Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, “Lord, he is stinking already, because it has been four days.” ⁴⁰ Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?” ⁴¹ So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his^[s] eyes above and said, “Father, I give thanks to you that you hear me. ⁴² And I know that you always hear me, but for the sake of the crowd standing around I said it,^[t] so that they may believe that you sent me.” ⁴³ And when he^[u] had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” ⁴⁴ The one who had died came out, his^[v] feet and his^[w] hands bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped with a facecloth. Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go.”

The Jewish Leaders Plot to Kill Jesus

⁴⁵ Then many of the Jews who had come with Mary and saw the things which he did believed in him. ⁴⁶ But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done. ⁴⁷ So the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs! ⁴⁸ If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place^[x] and our^[y] nation.”

⁴⁹ But a certain one of them, Caiaphas (who was high priest in that year), said to them, “You do not know anything at all! ⁵⁰ Nor do you consider that it is profitable for you that one man should die for the people, and the whole nation not perish.” ⁵¹ (Now he did not say this from himself, but being high priest in that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, ⁵² and not for the nation only, but also that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered into one.) ⁵³ So from that day they resolved that they should kill him. ⁵⁴ So Jesus was no longer walking openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.

⁵⁵ Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the surrounding country before the Passover, so that they could purify themselves. ⁵⁶ So they were looking for Jesus, and were speaking with one another while^[z] standing in the temple courts,^[aa] “What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?” ⁵⁷ (Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, they should report it,^[ab] in order that they could arrest him.)

Footnotes

1. John 11:3 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. John 11:4 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
3. John 11:4 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
4. John 11:6 Literally “in which”
5. John 11:13 Literally “the sleep of slumber”
6. John 11:15 Literally “for the sake of you”
7. John 11:16 “Didymus” means “the twin” in Greek
8. John 11:17 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“arrived”) which is understood as temporal
9. John 11:18 A “stade” or “stadium” (plur. “stadia”) is about 607 ft (187 m), so this was just under two miles (3 km)
10. John 11:19 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
11. John 11:22 Some manuscripts have “But even”
12. John 11:26 Literally “for the age”
13. John 11:28 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had said”) which is understood as temporal
14. John 11:29 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
15. John 11:31 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
16. John 11:31 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“thought”) which is understood as causal
17. John 11:32 Here “and” is supplied because the participle (“saw”) has been translated as a finite verb in keeping with English style
18. John 11:37 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
19. John 11:41 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
20. John 11:42 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
21. John 11:43 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had said”) which is understood as temporal
22. John 11:44 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
23. John 11:44 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
24. John 11:48 Generally understood to be a reference to the Jerusalem temple
25. John 11:48 Literally “both the place and the nation of us”; the possessive pronoun is repeated in the translation (rather than the article) in keeping with English style
26. John 11:56 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“standing”) which is understood as temporal
27. John 11:56 *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
28. John 11:57 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation