约翰福音 11

拉撒路死了

1 有一个患病的人，名叫拉撒路，住在伯大尼，就是马利亚和她姊姊马大的村庄。2 这马利亚就是后来用香膏抹主，并且用头发把主的脚擦干的那人；患病的拉撒路是她的兄弟。3 姊妹二人派人到耶稣那里去，说：“主啊，你所爱的人病了。”4 耶稣听见，就说：“这病不至于死，而是为了 神的荣耀，使 神的儿子因此得到荣耀。”5 耶稣向来爱马大和她的妹妹马利亚，以及拉撒路。6 他听说拉撒路病了，仍然在原来的地方住了两天，7 然后对门徒说：“我们再到犹太去吧。”8 门徒对他说：“拉比，近来犹太人要拿石头打你，你还到那里去吗？”9 耶稣说：“白昼不是有十二小时吗？人若在白昼行走，就不会跌倒，因为他看见这世上的光；10 人若在夜间行走，就会跌倒，因为他没有光。”11 耶稣说完了这些话，跟着又对他们说：“我们的朋友拉撒路睡了，我要去唤醒他。”12 门徒说：“主啊，如果他睡了，就会好过来的。”13 其实耶稣是指着拉撒路的死说的，门徒却以为他是指正常的睡眠说的。14 于是，耶稣公开地告诉他们：“拉撒路死了。15 我为你们欢喜，因为我不在那里，是要使你们相信。现在我们到他那里去吧。”16 那称为“双生子”的多马，对其他的门徒说：“我们也去跟他一同死吧！”
耶稣是复活是生命17 耶稣到了，知道拉撒路在坟墓里已经四天了。18 伯大尼靠近耶路撒冷，相距约有三公里。19 有许多犹太人来到马大和马利亚那里，为了拉撒路的死来安慰她们。20 马大听见耶稣来了，就去迎接他，马利亚却仍然坐在家里。21 马大对耶稣说：“主啊，如果你早在这里，我的兄弟就不会死了！22 就是现在，我也知道无论你向 神求甚么， 神必赐给你。”23 耶稣对她说：“你的兄弟必会复活。”24 马大说：“我知道在末日复活的时候，他必会复活。”25 耶稣说：“我就是复活和生命；信我的人，虽然死了，也要活着。26 所有活着又信我的人，必定永远不死，你信这话吗？”27 她说：“主啊，我信；我已经信了，你是基督，是 神的儿子，是那要到世上来的。”
耶稣使拉撒路复活28 马大说了这些话，就回去叫她妹妹马利亚，暗暗地说：“老师来了，他叫你。”29 马利亚一听见，就急忙起来，到耶稣那里去。30 那时，耶稣还没有进入村子，仍然在马大迎接他的地方。31 那些在房子里和马利亚在一起安慰她的犹太人，见她匆忙地起来出去，就跟着她，以为她要到坟墓那里去哭。32 马利亚来到耶稣那里，一看见他，就俯伏在他脚前，说：“主啊，如果你早在这里，我的兄弟就不会死了！”33 耶稣看见她在哭，和她一同来的犹太人也在哭，就心里激动，难过起来，34 说：“你们把他安放在哪里？”他们说：“主啊，请来看。”35 耶稣哭了。36 于是犹太人说：“你看，他多么爱这个人！”37 他们中间有人说：“他既然开了瞎子的眼睛，难道不能使这个人不死吗？”38 耶稣又再心里激动，来到坟墓前面。那坟墓是一个洞穴，洞口有块石头堵住。39 耶稣说：“把这块石头挪开！”死者的姊姊马大对他说：“主啊，已经四天了，他必定臭了。”40 耶稣说：“我不是对你说过‘如果你信，就必定看见 神的荣耀’吗？”41 于是他们把石头挪开。耶稣举目向天，说：“父啊，我感谢你，因为你垂听了我，42 我知道你常常听我，但我说这话，是为了周围站着的群众，叫他们信是你差了我来。”43 说了这话，就大声呼喊：“拉撒路，出来！”44 那死了的人就出来，他的手脚都缠着布，脸上裹着巾。耶稣说：“解开他，让他走！”
祭司长等想杀害耶稣45 有许多到马利亚那里去的犹太人，看见了耶稣所作的事，就信了他。46 但他们中间有些人到法利赛人那里去，把耶稣所作的事都告诉他们。47 于是祭司长和法利赛人召开公议会，说：“这个人行了许多神蹟，我们怎么办呢？48 我们若让他这样，所有的人都会信他，罗马人就会来，夺取我们的圣地，除灭我们的民族。”49 他们当中有一位该亚法，是那年作大祭司的，对他们说：“你们甚么都不知道，50 也不去想想，一个人代替人民死，免得整个民族灭亡，这对你们是有益的。”51 他说这话不是由于自己，而是因为他是那年的大祭司，所以预言耶稣要替犹太民族死；52 不但替犹太民族死，也要把散居各地的 神的儿女招聚成为一体。53 从那天起，他们就想杀害耶稣。54 因此，耶稣不再在犹太人中间公开活动，却离开那里，到旷野附近的地方去；到了一座名叫以法莲的城，就和门徒住在那里。55 犹太人的逾越节快到了，有许多人在过节前从各乡上耶路撒冷去，要在那里洁净自己。56 他们到处寻找耶稣，站在圣殿里的时候，彼此说：“你们认为怎样？他不会来过节吧？”57 祭司长和法利赛人早已下了命令：如果有人知道耶稣在哪里，就要前来报告，好去逮捕他。

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