約翰福音 11

拉撒路的死

1 有一個患病的人，名叫拉撒路，住在伯大尼，就是馬利亞和她姊姊馬大的村莊。 2 這馬利亞就是那用香膏抹主，又用頭髮擦他腳的；患病的拉撒路是她的兄弟。 3 她姊妹兩個就打發人去見耶穌，說：「主啊，你所愛的人病了。」 4 耶穌聽見，就說：「這病不至於死，乃是為上帝的榮耀，叫上帝的兒子因此得榮耀。」 5 耶穌素來愛馬大和她妹子並拉撒路。 6 聽見拉撒路病了，就在所居之地仍住了兩天。 7 然後對門徒說：「我們再往猶太去吧。」 8 門徒說：「拉比，猶太人近來要拿石頭打你，你還往那裏去嗎？」 9 耶穌回答說：「白日不是有十二小時嗎？人在白日走路，就不致跌倒，因為看見這世上的光。 10 若在黑夜走路，就必跌倒，因為他沒有光。」 11 耶穌說了這話，隨後對他們說：「我們的朋友拉撒路睡了，我去叫醒他。」 12 門徒說：「主啊，他若睡了，就必好了。」 13 耶穌這話是指著他死說的，他們卻以為是說照常睡了。 14 耶穌就明明地告訴他們說：「拉撒路死了。 15 我沒有在那裏就歡喜，這是為你們的緣故，好叫你們相信。如今我們可以往他那裏去吧。」 16 多馬，又稱為低土馬，就對那同作門徒的說：「我們也去和他同死吧。」

復活在我，生命在我

17 耶穌到了，就知道拉撒路在墳墓裏已經四天了。 18 伯大尼離耶路撒冷不遠，約有六里路。 19 有好些猶太人來看馬大和馬利亞，要為她們的兄弟安慰她們。 20 馬大聽見耶穌來了，就出去迎接他；馬利亞卻仍然坐在家裏。 21 馬大對耶穌說：「主啊，你若早在這裏，我兄弟必不死。 22 就是現在，我也知道，你無論向上帝求甚麼，上帝也必賜給你。」 23 耶穌說：「你兄弟必然復活。」 24 馬大說：「我知道在末日復活的時候，他必復活。」 25 耶穌對她說：「復活在我，生命也在我。信我的人雖然死了，也必復活； 26 凡活著信我的人必永遠不死。你信這話嗎？」 27 馬大說：「主啊，是的，我信你是基督，是上帝的兒子，就是那要臨到世界的。」

耶穌哭了

28  馬大說了這話，就回去暗暗地叫她妹子馬利亞，說：「夫子來了，叫你。」 29 馬利亞聽見了，就急忙起來，到耶穌那裏去。 30 那時，耶穌還沒有進村子，仍在馬大迎接他的地方。 31 那些同馬利亞在家裏安慰她的猶太人，見她急忙起來出去，就跟著她，以為她要往墳墓那裏去哭。 32 馬利亞到了耶穌那裏，看見他，就俯伏在他腳前，說：「主啊，你若早在這裏，我兄弟必不死。」 33 耶穌看見她哭，並看見與她同來的猶太人也哭，就心裏悲歎，又甚憂愁， 34 便說：「你們把他安放在哪裏？」他們回答說：「請主來看。」 35 耶穌哭了。 36 猶太人就說：「你看他愛這人是何等懇切。」 37 其中有人說：「他既然開了瞎子的眼睛，豈不能叫這人不死嗎？」

拉撒路復活

38 耶穌又心裏悲歎，來到墳墓前；那墳墓是個洞，有一塊石頭擋著。 39 耶穌說：「你們把石頭挪開。」那死人的姊姊馬大對他說：「主啊，他現在必是臭了，因為他死了已經四天了。」 40 耶穌說：「我不是對你說過，你若信，就必看見上帝的榮耀嗎？」 41 他們就把石頭挪開。耶穌舉目望天，說：「父啊，我感謝你，因為你已經聽我。 42 我也知道你常聽我，但我說這話是為周圍站著的眾人，叫他們信是你差了我來。」 43 說了這話，就大聲呼叫說：「拉撒路出來！」 44 那死人就出來了，手腳裹著布，臉上包著手巾。耶穌對他們說：「解開，叫他走！」

殺害耶穌的陰謀

（太26‧1－5；可14‧1－2；路22‧1－2）

45 那些來看馬利亞的猶太人見了耶穌所做的事，就多有信他的； 46 但其中也有去見法利賽人的，將耶穌所做的事告訴他們。 47 祭司長和法利賽人聚集公會，說：「這人行好些神蹟，我們怎麼辦呢？ 48 若這樣由著他，人人都要信他，羅馬人也要來奪我們的地土和我們的百姓。」 49 內中有一個人，名叫該亞法，本年作大祭司，對他們說：「你們不知道甚麼。 50 獨不想一個人替百姓死，免得通國滅亡，就是你們的益處。」 51 他這話不是出於自己，是因他本年作大祭司，所以預言耶穌將要替這一國死； 52 也不但替這一國死，並要將上帝四散的子民都聚集歸一。 53 從那日起，他們就商議要殺耶穌。

54 所以，耶穌不再顯然行在猶太人中間，就離開那裏往靠近曠野的地方去，到了一座城，名叫以法蓮，就在那裏和門徒同住。

55  猶太人的逾越節近了，有許多人從鄉下上耶路撒冷去，要在節前潔淨自己。 56 他們就尋找耶穌，站在殿裏彼此說：「你們的意思如何，他不來過節嗎？」 57 那時，祭司長和法利賽人早已吩咐說，若有人知道耶穌在哪裏，就要報明，好去拿他。

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