KJ3 Literal Translation
John 11
1 Christ raises Lazarus. 45 Many Jews believe. 49 Caiaphas prophesies.
1And there was a certain sick one, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2And it was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
3Then the sisters sent to Him, saying, Lord, behold, the one whom You love is sick.
4And hearing, Jesus said, This is not sickness to death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God be glorified by it.
5And Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6Therefore, when He heard that he is sick, then, indeed, He remained in the place where He was two days.
7Then after this He said to the disciples, Let us go to Judea again.
8The disciples said to Him, Rabbi, just now the Jews were seeking to stone You, and are You going there again?
9Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world.
10But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles because the light is not in him.
11He said these things. And after this, He said to them, Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going that I may awaken him.
12Then His disciples said, Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.
13But Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that He spoke of the resting of sleep .
14Therefore, then Jesus said to them plainly, Lazarus has died.
15And I rejoice because of you, in order that you may believe, that I was not there. But let us go to him.
16Then Thomas, the one having been called Twin, said to the fellow disciples, Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.
17Therefore coming, Jesus found him already having been in the tomb four days.
18And Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia from it.
19And many of the Jews had come to the ones around Martha and Mary, that they might console them concerning their brother.
20Then when Martha heard that Jesus is coming, she went and met Him; but Mary was sitting in the house.
21Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if You were here, my brother would not have died.
22But even now I know that as many things as You may ask God, God will give You.
23Jesus said to her, Your brother will rise again.
24Martha said to Him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day.
25Jesus said to her, I am the Resurrection and the Life. The one believing into Me, though he die, he shall live.
26And everyone living and believing into Me shall not die to the age, not ever! Do you believe this?
27She said to Him, Yes, Lord, I have believed that You are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world.
28And saying these things, she went away and called her sister Mary secretly, saying, The Teacher is here and calls you.
29That one, when she heard, rose up quickly and came to Him.
30And Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met Him.
31Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and consoling her, seeing that Mary quickly rose up and went out, they followed her, saying, She is going to the tomb so that she may weep there.
32Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was, seeing Him, she fell at His feet, saying to Him, Lord, if You were here, my brother would not have died.
33Therefore when He saw her weeping, and the Jews who came down with her weeping, Jesus groaned in the spirit and troubled Himself.
34And He said, Where have you put him? They said to Him, Lord, come and see.
35Jesus wept.
36Therefore the Jews said, See how He loved him!
37But some of them said, Was He, the One opening the eyes of the blind one, not able to have caused that this one should not die?
38Then groaning again within Himself, Jesus came to the tomb. And it was a cave, and a stone was lying on it.
39Jesus says, Lift the stone. Martha, the sister of the one having died, said to Him, Lord, he already smells, for it is the fourth day.
40Jesus said to her, Not did I say to you that if you would believe you will see the glory of God?
41Then they lifted the stone where was lying the one having died. And Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, Father, I thank You that You heard Me.
42And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing around, I said it, that they might believe that You sent Me.
43And saying these things, He cried out with a loud voice, Lazarus! Here! Outside!
44And the one who had died came out, the feet and the hands having been bound with sheets, and his face being bound with a cloth. Jesus said to them, Loose him and allow him to go.
45Therefore many of the Jews, the ones coming to Mary, and having seen what Jesus did, believed into Him.
46But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47Then the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled a sanhedrin, and said, What are we doing? For this man does many miraculous signs?
48If we leave Him alone thus, all will believe into Him, and the Romans will come and will take away from us both our place and the nation.
49But a certain one of them, Caiaphas being high priest of that year, said to them, You know nothing,
50nor do you consider that it is profitable for us that one man should die for the people, and not all the nation should perish.
51But he did not say this from himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die on behalf of the nation,
52and not only on behalf of the nation, but that He also might gather the children into one, the ones having been scattered.
53Therefore from that day, they took counsel that they might kill Him.
54Therefore Jesus no longer walked freely among the Jews, but went away from there into the country near the deserted place, into a city being called Ephraim, and stayed there with His disciples.
55And the Passover of the Jews was near. And many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover, that they might purify themselves.
56Then they were seeking Jesus, and were speaking with one another, standing in the temple, What does it seem to you? That He does not come to the Feast, not at all?
57And all the chief priests and the Pharisees had given command that if anyone knew where He is, he should inform so that they might seize Him.
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