JOAN 11

Lazaroren heriotza

1 Gizon bat, Lazaro zeritzana, gaixo zegoen. Betaniakoat zen, Maria eta honen ahizpa Martaren herrixkakoa.t 2 (Maria hau —gaixo zegoen Lazaroren arreba— Jauna ukenduz igurtzi eta oinak bere ile-adatsez xukatu zizkiona zen).t 3 Bi ahizpek Jesusi albistea bidali zioten: «Jauna! Zure adiskidea gaixo dago».t

4 Jesusek, hori jakitean, esan zuen: «Eritasun hau ez da heriotzara eramateko, Jainkoaren aintza azaltzeko baizik, beraren bidez Jainkoaren Semearen aintza azal dadin».t
5 Marta, honen ahizpa eta Lazaro oso adiskide zituen arren, 6 hau gaixo zegoela jakinda ere, Jesus beste bi egunez gelditu zen zegoen lekuan.

7 Ondoren, esan zien ikasleei:
—Goazen berriro Judeara.

8 Ikasleek esan zioten:
—Maisu, oraintsu juduek harrika egin nahi zizuten, eta hara zoaz berriro?t

9 Jesusek erantzun zien:
—Ez al ditu hamabi ordu egunak? Egunez dabilenak ez du estropezu egiten, eguzkiak argitzen baitio bidea;t

10 baina gauez dabilenak estropezu egiten du, ez baitu argirik.

11 Eta erantsi zuen:
—Lazaro gure adiskidea loak hartu dut; baina banoa iratzartzera.t

12 Esan zioten, orduan, ikasleek:
—Jauna, loak hartu badu, sendatuko da.

13 Jesusek Lazaroren heriotzaz esan zuen hori, baina ikasleek ohiko loaz ari zela uste zuten.

14 Azkenik, argi eta garbi esan zien Jesusek:
—Lazaro hil egin da,

15 eta pozten naiz han ez izanaz, zeuen onerako izango baita, horrela sinets dezazuen. Goazen, bada, haren etxera.

16 Orduan, Tomasek, Bikia zeritzanak, bere ikaskideei esan zien: «Goazen gu ere, berarekin hiltzera».t

Jesus, piztuera eta bizia

21 Martak esan zion Jesusi:
—Jauna, hemen izan bazina, gure neba ez zen hilko.

22 Baina, halere, badakit eska diezaiozun guztia emango dizula Jainkoak.

23 Jesusek erantzun zion:
—Piztuko da zure neba.

24 Eta Martak:
—Badakit, bai, piztuko dela azken egunean, hildakoen piztuerakoan.t

25 Jesusek esan zion, orduan:
—Neu naiz piztuera eta biziat; niregan sinesten duena, hilda ere, biziko da.t

26 Eta bizi dena, niregan sinesten badu, ez da betiko hilko. Sinesten al duzu hau?t

27 Martak erantzun zion:
—Bai, Jauna, sinesten dut zeu zarela Mesias, Jainkoaren Semea, mundura etortzekoa zena.t

Jesusek hilobi ondoan negar

28 Ondoren, Marta bere ahizpa Mariari dei egitera joan zen, eta esan zion isilka: «Maisua hemen dun eta hots egiten din».
29 Berehala jaiki eta Jesusengana joan zen. 30 Jesus artean herrixkan sartu gabe zegoen, Martak topatu zuen lekuan bertan. 31 Orduan, hari doluminak ematen etxean zeuden juduek, Maria arin jaiki eta irten egin zela ikusirik, jarraitu egin zioten, hilobian negar egitera zihoalakoan.

32 Mariak, Jesusengana iritsi eta ikustean, oinetara ahuspeztu eta esan zion: «Jauna, hemen izan bazina, gure neba ez zen hilko».
33 Jesusi, orduan, Maria eta beronekin zetozen juduak negarrez ikusirik, barruak zirrara egin zion eta, zeharo hunkiturik,

34 esan zuen:
—Non ipini duzue?
Erantzun zioten:
—Jauna, zatoz eta ikusi.
35 Jesusek negarrari eman zion.t

36 Han zeuden juduek esan zuten:
—Bai maite zuela!t

37 Baina batzuek esan zuten:
—Itsuaren begiak ireki zituen honek, ezin ote zuen hau hiltzea galarazi?t

Lazaroren piztuera

39 Jesusek esan zuen:
—Kendu harria.
Martak, Lazaro zenaren arrebak, erantzun zion:
—Jauna, kiratsa botako du, lau egun daramatza eta.

40 Jesusek erantzun zion:
—Ez dizut, bada, esan, sinesten baduzu Jainkoaren aintza ikusiko duzula?
41 Kendu zuten, bada, harria. Jesusek, begiak zerurantz jasorik, esan zuen: «Eskerrak zuri, Aita, entzun didazulako.t

42 Nik badakit beti entzuten didazuna; baina inguruan den jendearengatik diot, zuk bidali nauzula sinets dezaten».t

43 Ondoren, ozenki egin zuen deiadar: «Lazaro, zatoz kanpora!»t

44 Eta hildakoa hartzulotik irten zen. Esku-oinak oihal-zerrendaz loturik eta aurpegia zapi batez estalirik zituen. Jesusek esan zien: «Aska ezazue eta utzi joaten».t

Agintariek Jesus hiltzea erabaki

(Mt 26,1-5; Mk 14,1-2; Lk 22,1-2)

47 Orduan, apaizburu eta fariseuek Biltzar Nagusia bildu zuten, eta esan:
—Zer egin? Gizon hau mirarizko seinale asko egiten ari da!t

48 Horrela jarraitzen uzten badiogu, guztiek sinetsiko dute berorrengan. Orduan, erromatarrek etorri eta birrindu egingo dituzte bai tenplua, bai herria.

49 Biltzarkideetako batek, urte hartan apaiz nagusi zen Kaifasek, esan zien:
—Zuek ez dakizue tutik ere.t

50 Ez al zarete konturatzen hobe dela gizon bat herriarengatik hiltzea, herri osoa galtzea baino?
51 Kaifasek ez zuen hori bere kabuz esan, baizik eta, urte hartan apaiz nagusi zenez, Jainkoaren izenean hitz egin zuen, Jesus herriaren alde hilko zela adieraztean;

52 eta ez herriaren alde bakarrik, baita sakabanaturik zeuden Jainkoaren seme-alabak elkartzeko ere.t
53 Beraz, ordutik aurrera, Jesus nola hilko pentsatzen hasi ziren;t

54 hargatik, Jesus ez zen ibiltzen agerian juduen artean; basamortu ondoko bazter batera alde egin zuen, Efraimt izeneko herrira, eta han egon zen bere ikasleekin.t
55 Hurbil zen Pazkoa, juduen jai nagusia, eta herrietako jende asko Jerusalemera joan zen Pazkoa baino lehen, garbikuntza-ohikuneetan parte hartzeko.t

56 Jerusalemera etorriak Jesusen bila zebiltzan eta, tenpluan topo egitean, galdetzen zioten elkarri: «Zer iruditzen zaizue? Ez ote da etorriko jaietara?»t
57 Apaizburu eta fariseuek agindua zuten, inork Jesus non zen jakiten bazuen, sala zezala, atxilotu ahal izateko.

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