John 11
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Berean Standard Bible
1Now there was a certain man sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, of the town of Mary and Martha her sister.
1At this time a man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2(And Mary was she that anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair: whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
2(Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was to anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet with her hair.)
3His sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
3So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”
4And Jesus hearing it, said to them: This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by it.
4When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
5Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister Mary, and Lazarus.
5Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he still remained in the same place two days.
6So on hearing that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was for two days,
7Then after that, he said to his disciples: Let us go into Judea again.
7and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”
8The disciples say to him: Rabbi, the Jews but now sought to stone thee: and goest thou thither again?
8“Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”
9Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours of the day? If a man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world:
9Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.
10But if he walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.
10But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”
11These things he said; and after that he said to them: Lazarus our friend sleepeth; but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.
11After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”
12His disciples therefore said: Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
12His disciples replied, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get better.”
13But Jesus spoke of his death; and they thought that he spoke of the repose of sleep.
13They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus.
14Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead.
14So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,
15And I am glad, for your sakes, that I was not there, that you may believe: but let us go to him.
15and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
16Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples: Let us also go, that we may die with him.
16Then Thomas called Didymus said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”
17Jesus therefore came, and found that he had been four days already in the grave.
17When Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus had already spent four days in the tomb.
18(Now Bethania was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off.)
18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, a little less than two miles away,
19And many of the Jews were come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
19and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother.
20Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that Jesus had come, went to meet him: but Mary sat at home.
20So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him; but Mary stayed at home.
21Martha therefore said to Jesus: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
21Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
22But now also I know that whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
22But even now I know that God will give You whatever You ask of Him.”
23Jesus saith to her: Thy brother shall rise again.
23“Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.
24Martha saith to him: I know that he shall rise again, in the resurrection at the last day.
24Martha replied, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
25Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live:
25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
26And every one that liveth, and believeth in me, shall not die for ever. Believest thou this?
26And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”
27She saith to him: Yea, Lord, I have believed that thou art Christ the Son of the living God, who art come into this world.
27“Yes, Lord,” she answered, “I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”
28And when she had said these things, she went, and called her sister Mary secretly, saying: The master is come, and calleth for thee.
28After Martha had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside to tell her, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”
29She, as soon as she heard this, riseth quickly, and cometh to him.
29And when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him.
30For Jesus was not yet come into the town: but he was still in that place where Martha had met him.
30Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.
31The Jews therefore, who were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary that she rose up speedily and went out, followed her, saying: She goeth to the grave to weep there.
31When the Jews who were in the house consoling Mary saw how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.
32When Mary therefore was come where Jesus was, seeing him, she fell down at his feet, and saith to him: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
32When Mary came to Jesus and saw Him, she fell at His feet and said, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews that were come with her, weeping, groaned in the spirit, and troubled himself,
33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
34And said: Where have you laid him? They say to him: Lord, come and see.
34“Where have you put him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered.
35And Jesus wept.
35Jesus wept.
36The Jews therefore said: Behold how he loved him.
36Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
37But some of them said: Could not he that opened the eyes of the man born blind, have caused that this man should not die?
37But some of them asked, “Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept Lazarus from dying?”
38Jesus therefore again groaning in himself, cometh to the sepulchre. Now it was a cave; and a stone was laid over it.
38Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
39Jesus saith: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith to him: Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he is now of four days.
39“Take away the stone,” Jesus said. “Lord, by now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man. “It has already been four days.”
40Jesus saith to her: Did not I say to thee, that if thou believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?
40Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
41They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifting up his eyes said: Father, I give thee thanks that thou hast heard me.
41So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
42And I knew that thou hearest me always; but because of the people who stand about have I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
42I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.”
43When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth.
43After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44And presently he that had been dead came forth, bound feet and hands with winding bands; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus said to them: Loose him, and let him go.
44The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.
45Many therefore of the Jews, who were come to Mary and Martha, and had seen the things that Jesus did, believed in him.
45Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.
46But some of them went to the Pharisees, and told them the things that Jesus had done.
46But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47The chief priests therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered a council, and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles?
47Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
48If we let him alone so, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and take away our place and nation.
48If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
49But one of them, named Caiphas, being the high priest that year, said to them: You know nothing.
49But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!
50Neither do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
50You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
51And this he spoke not of himself: but being the high priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation.
51Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,
52And not only for the nation, but to gather together in one the children of God, that were dispersed.
52and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.
53From that day therefore they devised to put him to death.
53So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.
54Wherefore Jesus walked no more openly among the Jews; but he went into a country near the desert, unto a city that is called Ephrem, and there he abode with his disciples.
54As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.
55And the pasch of the Jews was at hand; and many from the country went up to Jerusalem, before the pasch to purify themselves.
55Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.
56They sought therefore for Jesus; and they discoursed one with another, standing in the temple: What think you that he is not come to the festival day?
56They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? Will He come to the feast at all?”
57And the chief priests and Pharisees had given a commandment, that if any man knew where he was, he should tell, that they might apprehend him.
57But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.
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