约翰福音 11

拉撒路病死

1 伯大尼村有个名叫拉撒路的人病倒了。伯大尼是玛丽亚和她姐姐玛大居住的村庄。2 就是这个玛丽亚后来用香膏抹主，又用自己的头发擦干祂的脚，患病的拉撒路是她的弟弟。3 她们姊妹两个托人去告诉耶稣，说：“主啊，你所爱的人病了！”

4 耶稣听见后，说：“这病不会致命，而是为了上帝的荣耀，使祂的儿子借此得到荣耀。”5 耶稣一向爱玛大、玛丽亚和拉撒路，6 可是祂听到拉撒路有病的消息后，仍逗留了两天，7 然后才对门徒说：“我们去犹太吧！”

8 门徒说：“老师，犹太人近来想拿石头打你，你还要去那里吗？”

9 耶稣说：“白天不是有十二个小时吗？人在白天走路，不会跌倒，因为他看得见这世上的光。10 人在夜间走路，才会跌倒，因为没有光。”11 接着耶稣又说：“我们的朋友拉撒路已经睡了，我去叫醒他。”

12 门徒说：“主啊，如果他睡了，肯定会好的。”13 其实耶稣是指他已经死了，门徒却以为他真的睡了。

14 于是耶稣清楚地对他们说：“拉撒路死了。15 为了你们的缘故，我很高兴自己不在那里，好叫你们信我。现在我们可以去了。”16 绰号“双胞胎”的多马对其他门徒说：“我们也去，好跟祂一块儿死吧。”

拉撒路死而复活

17 耶稣到了伯大尼，得知拉撒路已经在坟墓里四天了。18 伯大尼离耶路撒冷不远，大约只有三公里的路，19 很多犹太人来看玛大和玛丽亚，为她们兄弟的事来安慰她们。

20 玛大听说耶稣来了，就去迎接祂，玛丽亚却仍然坐在家里。21 玛大对耶稣说：“主啊，你如果早在这里，我弟弟就不会死了。22 就是现在我也知道你无论向上帝求什么，上帝必定赐给你。”

23 耶稣说：“你弟弟必定复活。”

24 玛大说：“我知道，在末日复活的时候，他必复活。”

25 耶稣说：“我是复活，我是生命。信我的人虽然死了，也必复活。26 凡活着信我的人必永远不死。你相信吗？”

27 玛大说：“主啊，我信！我相信你是来到世界的基督，是上帝的儿子。”

28 玛大说完了，就回去悄悄地告诉她妹妹玛丽亚：“老师来了，祂叫你去。”

29 玛丽亚听了，急忙起来到耶稣那里。30 那时，耶稣还没有进村子，仍在玛大迎接祂的地方。31 那些在家里安慰玛丽亚的犹太人，见她匆匆忙忙地跑了出去，以为她要去坟墓那里哭，就跟着出去。

32 玛丽亚来到耶稣那里，俯伏在祂脚前说：“主啊，你如果早在这里，我弟弟就不会死了。”

33 耶稣看见她和陪她来的犹太人都在哭，心中感动，十分难过，

34 便问：“你们把他葬在哪里了？”
他们答道：“主啊，你来看。”

35 耶稣哭了。

36 犹太人说：“你看！祂多么爱拉撒路啊！”

37 其中也有人说：“祂既然能医好瞎眼的人，难道不能叫这个人不死吗？”

38 耶稣又十分感动地来到坟墓前。那坟墓是个洞，洞口堵着一块大石头。

39 耶稣说：“把石头挪开。”
死者的姐姐玛大对祂说：“主啊，他死了四天了，已经臭了。”

40 耶稣说：“我不是跟你说过，只要你信，就会看见上帝的荣耀吗？”

41 于是他们把石头挪开，耶稣望着天说：“父啊，我感谢你，因为你已垂听了我的祷告，42 我知道你常常垂听我的祷告。我这样说是为了周围站着的众人，好叫他们相信是你差了我来。”

43 说完，就大声呼喊：“拉撒路，出来！”

44 那死者就出来了，手脚都缠着布条，脸上也包着布。
耶稣对他们说：“给他解开，让他走！”

谋害耶稣

45 许多来看玛丽亚的犹太人看见耶稣所行的事，就信了祂，46 但也有些人去见法利赛人，把耶稣所行的事告诉他们。47 祭司长和法利赛人便召开公会会议，说：“这人行了这么多神迹，我们该怎么办呢？48 如果让他这样继续下去，所有的人都会信他，那时罗马人一定会来夺取我们的土地，掳掠我们的人民。”

49 当年担任大祭司的该亚法对他们说：“你们什么都不懂！50 你们没有认识到，祂一个人替众人死，而不是整个民族灭亡，对你们来说更好。”51 其实这句话不是出于他自己，只因那年他是大祭司，上帝借着他预言耶稣将要替犹太民族死。52 祂不单是要替犹太民族死，也要把散居在各处的上帝的儿女聚集在一起。

53 从那天起，他们就计划要杀害耶稣，54 所以耶稣不再公开地在犹太人中间露面。祂离开伯大尼，前往靠近旷野的地方，到了以法莲城，就和门徒住下来。

55 犹太人的逾越节快到了，有很多人从乡下上耶路撒冷，预备在过节前洁净自己。56 他们四处寻找耶稣，又彼此在圣殿里谈论：“你们怎么想？他不会来过节吧？”57 当时祭司长和法利赛人早已下令，如果有人知道耶稣在哪里，就来报告，他们好去抓祂。

John 11

The Death of Lazarus

1 Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.t2 (Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oilt and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)s3 So the sisters sent a messaget to Jesus,t “Lord, look, the one you love is sick.”4 When Jesus heard this, he said, “This sickness will not lead to death,ts but to God’s glory,t so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”s

5 (Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)s
6 So when he heard that Lazarust was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days.7 Then after this, he said to his disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”s8 The disciples replied,t “Rabbi, the Jewish leaderst were just now tryingt to stone you to death! Aret you going there again?”9 Jesus replied,t “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble,t because he sees the light of this world.s

10 But if anyone walks around at night,t he stumbles,t because the light is not in him.”
11 After he said this, he added,t “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep.t But I am going there to awaken him.”12 Then the disciples replied,t “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

13 (Now Jesus had been talking aboutt his death, but theyt thought he had been talking about real sleep.)ts
14 Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,15 and I am gladt for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe.s But let us go to him.”

16 So Thomas (called Didymuss)s said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go too, so that we may die with him.”s

Speaking with Martha and Mary

17 Whent Jesus arrived,t he found that Lazarust had been in the tomb four days already.ts18 (Now Bethany was less than two milest from Jerusalem,s19 so many of the Jewish people of the regiont had come to Martha and Mary to console themt over the loss of their brother.)ts20 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.s21 Marthat said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

22 But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grantt you.”s
23 Jesus replied,t “Your brother will come back to life again.”ts24 Martha said,t “I know that he will come back to life againt 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 will livet even if he dies,26 and the one who lives and believes in me will never die.t Do you believe this?”

27 She replied,t “Yes, Lord, I believet that you are the Christ,ts the Son of God who comes into the world.”t
28 And when she had said this, Marthat went and called her sister Mary, saying privately,t “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”t29 So when Maryt heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.30 (Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)

31 Then the peoplet who were with Maryt in the house consoling her saw hert get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weept there.
32 Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the peoplet who had come with her weeping, he was intensely movedt in spirit and greatly distressed.t34 He asked,t “Where have you laid him?”t They replied,t “Lord, come and see.”35 Jesus wept.s36 Thus the people who had come to mournt said, “Look how much he loved him!”

37 But some of them said, “This is the man who caused the blind man to see!t Couldn’t he have done something to keep Lazarust from dying?”

Lazarus Raised from the Dead

38 Jesus, intensely movedt again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)s39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”t Martha, the sister of the deceased,t replied, “Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell,t because he has been buriedt four days.”s40 Jesus responded,t “Didn’t I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?”41 So they took awayt the stone. Jesus looked upwardt and said, “Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.t42 I knew that you always listen to me,t but I said thist for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”43 Whent he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice,s “Lazarus, come out!”

44 The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth,s and a cloth wrapped around his face.t Jesus said to them, “Unwrap himt and let him go.”

The Response of the Jewish Leaders

45 Then many of the people,t who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesust did, believed in him.46 But some of them went to the Phariseess and reported to themt what Jesus had done.47 So the chief priests and the Phariseest called the councilt together and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.

48 If we allow him to go on in this way,t everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuaryt and our nation.”
49 Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said,t “You know nothing at all!50 You do not realizet that it is more to your advantage to have one mant die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.”s51 (Now he did not say this on his own,t but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,t52 and not for the Jewish nationt only,s but to gather togethert into one the children of God who are scattered.)s

53 So from that day they planned together to kill him.
54 Thus Jesus no longer wentt around publiclyt among the Judeans,t but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim,t and stayed there with his disciples.55 Now the Jewish feast of Passovert was near, and many people went up to Jerusalems from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.t56 Thus they were looking for Jesus,t and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts,t “What do you think? That he won’t come to the feast?”

57 (Now the chief priests and the Phariseest had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesust was should report it, so that they could arrestt him.)s