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1 - And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister--

2 - and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing--

3 - therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, `Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;'

4 - and Jesus having heard, said, `This ailment is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.'

5 - And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,

6 - when, therefore, he heard that he is ailing, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days,

7 - then after this, he saith to the disciples, `We may go to Judea again;'

8 - the disciples say to him, `Rabbi, now were the Jews seeking to stone thee, and again thou dost go thither!'

9 - Jesus answered, `Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;

10 - and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'

11 - These things he said, and after this he saith to them, `Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;'

12 - therefore said his disciples, `Sir, if he hath fallen asleep, he will be saved;'

13 - but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh.

14 - Then, therefore, Jesus said to them freely, `Lazarus hath died;

15 - and I rejoice, for your sake, (that ye may believe,) that I was not there; but we may go to him;'

16 - therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, `We may go--we also, that we may die with him,'

17 - Jesus, therefore, having come, found him having been four days already in the tomb.

18 - And Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off,

19 - and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;

20 - Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus doth come, met him, and Mary kept sitting in the house.

21 - Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;

22 - but even now, I have known that whatever thou mayest ask of God, God will give to thee;'

23 - Jesus saith to her, `Thy brother shall rise again.'

24 - Martha saith to him, `I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;'

25 - Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;

26 - and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die--to the age;

27 - believest thou this?' she saith to him, `Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.'

28 - And these things having said, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, `The Teacher is present, and doth call thee;'

29 - she, when she heard, riseth up quickly, and doth come to him;

30 - and Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was in the place where Martha met him;

31 - the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying--`She doth go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.'

32 - Mary, therefore, when she came where Jesus was, having seen him, fell at his feet, saying to him, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;'

33 - Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said,

34 - `Where have ye laid him?' they say to him, `Sir, come and see;'

35 - Jesus wept.

36 - The Jews, therefore, said, `Lo, how he was loving him!'

37 - and certain of them said, `Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?'

38 - Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it,

39 - Jesus saith, `Take ye away the stone;' the sister of him who hath died--Martha--saith to him, `Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;'

40 - Jesus saith to her, `Said I not to thee, that if thou mayest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?'

41 - They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, `Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me;

42 - and I knew that Thou always dost hear me, but, because of the multitude that is standing by, I said <FI>it<Fi> , that they may believe that Thou didst send me.'

43 - And these things saying, with a loud voice he cried out, `Lazarus, come forth;'

44 - and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his visage with a napkin was bound about; Jesus saith to them, `Loose him, and suffer to go.'

45 - Many, therefore, of the Jews who came unto Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in him;

46 - but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did;

47 - the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?

48 - if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'

49 - and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything,

50 - nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'

51 - And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation,

52 - and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.

53 - From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him;

54 - Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples.

55 - And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;

56 - they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, `What doth appear to you--that he may not come to the feast?'

57 - and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew <FI>it<Fi> , so that they may seize him.