1 Estava, porém, enfermo um certo Lázaro, de betânia, aldeia de Maria e de sua irmã Marta.
2 E Maria era aquela que tinha ungido o Senhor com ungüento, e lhe tinha enxugado os pés com os seus cabelos, cujo irmão Lázaro estava enfermo.
3 Mandaram-lhe, pois, suas irmãs dizer: Senhor, eis que está enfermo aquele que tu amas.
4 E Jesus, ouvindo isto, disse: Esta enfermidade não é para morte, mas para glória de Deus, para que o Filho de Deus seja glorificado por ela.
5 Ora, Jesus amava a Marta, e a sua irmã, e a Lázaro.
6 Ouvindo, pois, que estava enfermo, ficou ainda dois dias no lugar onde estava.
7 Depois disto, disse aos seus discípulos: Vamos outra vez para a Judéia.
8 Disseram-lhe os discípulos: Rabi, ainda agora os judeus procuravam apedrejar-te, e tornas para lá?
9 Jesus respondeu: Não há doze horas no dia? Se alguém andar de dia, não tropeça, porque vê a luz deste mundo;
10 Mas, se andar de noite, tropeça, porque nele não há luz.
11 Assim falou; e depois disse-lhes: Lázaro, o nosso amigo, dorme, mas vou despertá-lo do sono.
12 Disseram, pois, os seus discípulos: Senhor, se dorme, estará salvo.
13 Mas Jesus dizia isto da sua morte; eles, porém, cuidavam que falava do repouso do sono.
14 Então Jesus disse-lhes claramente: Lázaro está morto;
15 E folgo, por amor de vós, de que eu lá não estivesse, para que acrediteis; mas vamos ter com ele.
16 Disse, pois, Tomé, chamado Dídimo, aos condiscípulos: Vamos nós também, para morrermos com ele.
17 Chegando, pois, Jesus, achou que já havia quatro dias que estava na sepultura.
18 (Ora Betânia distava de Jerusalém quase quinze estádios. )
19 E muitos dos judeus tinham ido consolar a Marta e a Maria, acerca de seu irmão.
20 Ouvindo, pois, Marta que Jesus vinha, saiu-lhe ao encontro; Maria, porém, ficou assentada em casa.
21 Disse, pois, Marta a Jesus: Senhor, se tu estivesses aqui, meu irmão não teria morrido.
22 Mas também agora sei que tudo quanto pedires a Deus, Deus to concederá.
23 Disse-lhe Jesus: Teu irmão há de ressuscitar.
24 Disse-lhe Marta: Eu sei que há de ressuscitar na ressurreição do último dia.
25 Disse-lhe Jesus: Eu sou a ressurreição e a vida; quem crê em mim, ainda que esteja morto, viverá;
26 E todo aquele que vive, e crê em mim, nunca morrerá. Crês tu isto?
27 Disse-lhe ela: Sim, Senhor, creio que tu és o Cristo, o Filho de Deus, que havia de vir ao mundo.
28 E, dito isto, partiu, e chamou em segredo a Maria, sua irmã, dizendo: O Mestre está cá, e chama-te.
29 Ela, ouvindo isto, levantou-se logo, e foi ter com ele.
30 (Pois, Jesus ainda não tinha chegado à aldeia, mas estava no lugar onde Marta o encontrara.)
31 Vendo, pois, os judeus, que estavam com ela em casa e a consolavam, que Maria apressadamente se levantara e saíra, seguiram-na, dizendo: Vai ao sepulcro para chorar ali.
32 Tendo, pois, Maria chegado aonde Jesus estava, e vendo-o, lançou-se aos seus pés, dizendo-lhe: Senhor, se tu estivesses aqui, meu irmão não teria morrido.
33 Jesus pois, quando a viu chorar, e também chorando os judeus que com ela vinham, moveu-se muito em espírito, e perturbou-se.
34 E disse: Onde o pusestes? Disseram-lhe: Senhor, vem, e vê.
35 Jesus chorou.
36 Disseram, pois, os judeus: Vede como o amava.
37 E alguns deles disseram: Não podia ele, que abriu os olhos ao cego, fazer também com que este não morresse?
38 Jesus, pois, movendo-se outra vez muito em si mesmo, veio ao sepulcro; e era uma caverna, e tinha uma pedra posta sobre ela.
39 Disse Jesus: Tirai a pedra. Marta, irmã do defunto, disse-lhe: Senhor, já cheira mal, porque é já de quatro dias.
40 Disse-lhe Jesus: Não te hei dito que, se creres, verás a glória de Deus?
41 Tiraram, pois, a pedra de onde o defunto jazia. E Jesus, levantando os olhos para cima, disse: Pai, graças te dou, por me haveres ouvido.
42 Eu bem sei que sempre me ouves, mas eu disse isto por causa da multidão que está em redor, para que creiam que tu me enviaste.
43 E, tendo dito isto, clamou com grande voz: Lázaro, sai para fora.
44 E o defunto saiu, tendo as mãos e os pés ligados com faixas, e o seu rosto envolto num lenço. Disse-lhes Jesus: Desligai-o, e deixai-o ir.
45 Muitos, pois, dentre os judeus que tinham vindo a Maria, e que tinham visto o que Jesus fizera, creram nele.
46 Mas alguns deles foram ter com os fariseus, e disseram-lhes o que Jesus tinha feito.
47 Depois os principais dos sacerdotes e os fariseus formaram conselho, e diziam: Que faremos? porquanto este homem faz muitos sinais.
48 Se o deixamos assim, todos crerão nele, e virão os romanos, e tirar-nos-ão o nosso lugar e a nação.
49 E Caifás, um deles que era sumo sacerdote naquele ano, lhes disse: Vós nada sabeis,
50 Nem considerais que nos convém que um homem morra pelo povo, e que não pereça toda a nação.
51 Ora ele não disse isto de si mesmo, mas, sendo o sumo sacerdote naquele ano, profetizou que Jesus devia morrer pela nação.
52 E não somente pela nação, mas também para reunir em um corpo os filhos de Deus que andavam dispersos.
53 Desde aquele dia, pois, consultavam-se para o matarem.
54 Jesus, pois, já não andava manifestamente entre os judeus, mas retirou-se dali para a terra junto do deserto, para uma cidade chamada Efraim; e ali ficou com os seus discípulos.
55 E estava próxima a páscoa dos judeus, e muitos daquela região subiram a Jerusalém antes da páscoa para se purificarem.
56 Buscavam, pois, a Jesus, e diziam uns aos outros, estando no templo: Que vos parece? Não virá à festa?
57 Ora, os principais dos sacerdotes e os fariseus tinham dado ordem para que, se alguém soubesse onde ele estava, o denunciasse, para o prenderem.
1 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
3 Therefore his sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick.
4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
6 When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he stayed two days still in the same place where he was.
7 Then after that said he to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.
8 His disciples say to him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone you; and go you thither again?
9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbles not, because he sees the light of this world.
10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.
11 These things said he: and after that he said to them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
13 However, Jesus spoke of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
14 Then said Jesus to them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent you may believe; nevertheless let us go to him.
16 Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, to his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
17 Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
18 Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
19 And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
21 Then said Martha to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my brother had not died.
22 But I know, that even now, whatever you will ask of God, God will give it you.
23 Jesus said to her, Your brother shall rise again.
24 Martha said to him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Believe you this?
27 She said to him, Yes, Lord: I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
28 And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calls for you.
29 As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came to him.
30 Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.
31 The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goes to the grave to weep there.
32 Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if you had been here, my brother had not died.
33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled.
34 And said, Where have you laid him? They said to him, Lord, come and see.
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!
37 And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself comes to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay on it.
39 Jesus said, Take you away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, said to him, Lord, by this time he stinks: for he has been dead four days.
40 Jesus said to her, Said I not to you, that, if you would believe, you should see the glory of God?
41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
42 And I knew that you hear me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that you have sent me.
43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus said to them, Loose him, and let him go.
45 Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him.
46 But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.
47 Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many miracles.
48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
49 And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said to them, You know nothing at all,
50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
51 And this spoke he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
52 And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
53 Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.
54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went there to a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
55 And the Jews'passover was near at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
56 Then sought they for Jesus, and spoke among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think you, that he will not come to the feast?
57 Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should show it, that they might take him.