1 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 Mary was the woman who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was the one who was ill.
3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, saying, "Lord, the one whom you love is ill."
4 But when Jesus heard it, he said,"This illness is not meant to end in death. It is for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."
5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 Yet, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was for two days.
7 After this he said to the disciples,"Let's go back to Judea."
8 The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you to death, and you are going back there again?"
9 Jesus replied,"There are twelve hours in the day, aren't there? If anyone walks during the day he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10 But if anyone walks at night he stumbles, because the light is not in him."
11 These were the things he said. Then after this he told them,"Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am leaving to wake him up."
12 So the disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well."
13 Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about resting or sleeping.
14 Then Jesus told them plainly,"Lazarus has died.
15 For your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let's go to him."
16 Then Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go, too, so that we may die with him!"
17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.
18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away,
19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother.
20 As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home.
21 Martha 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 of God, God will give it to you."
23 Jesus told her,"Your brother will rise again."
24 Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day."
25 Jesus said to her,"I am the resurrection and the life.The person who believes in me, even though he dies, will live.
26 Indeed, everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe that?"
27 She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who was to come into the world."
28 When she had said this, she went away and called her sister Mary and told her privately, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you!"
29 As soon as Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.
30 Now Jesus had not yet arrived at the village but was still at the place where Martha had met him.
31 When the Jews who had been with her, consoling her in the house, saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she had gone to the tomb to cry there.
32 As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."
33 When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was greatly troubled in spirit and deeply moved.
34 He said,"Where have you put him?"They said to him, "Lord, come and see."
35 Jesus burst into tears.
36 So the Jews said, "See how much he loved him!"
37 But some of them said, "Surely the one who opened the eyes of the blind man could have kept this man from dying, couldn't he?"
38 Groaning deeply again, Jesus came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.
39 Jesus said,"Remove the stone."Martha, the dead man's sister, told him, "Lord, there must be a stench by now, because he's been dead for four days."
40 Jesus said to her,"I told you that if you believed you would see God's glory, didn't I?"
41 So they removed the stone.Then Jesus looked upward and said,"Father, I thank you for hearing me.
42 I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."
43 After saying this, he shouted with a loud voice,"Lazarus, come out!"
44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet tied with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a handkerchief. Jesus told them,"Untie him, and let him go."
45 Many of the Jews who had come with Mary and had observed what Jesus did believed in him.
46 Some of them, however, went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.
48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our temple and our nation."
49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, told them, "You don't know anything!
50 You don't realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed."
51 Now he did not say this on his own initiative. As high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
52 and not only for the nation, but that he would also gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.
53 So from that day on they resolved to put him to death.
54 As a result, Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews. Instead, he went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness. There he remained with his disciples.
55 Now the Jewish Passover was approaching, and before the Passover many people from the countryside went up to Jerusalem to purify themselves.
56 They kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? Surely he won't come to the festival, will he?"
57 Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that whoever knew where he was should tell them so that they could arrest him.
1 Havia um homem chamado Lázaro. Ele era de Betânia, do povoado de Maria e de sua irmã Marta. E aconteceu que Lázaro ficou doente.
2 Maria, sua irmã, era a mesma que derramara perfume sobre o Senhor e lhe enxugara os pés com os cabelos.
3 Então as irmãs de Lázaro mandaram dizer a Jesus: "Senhor, aquele a quem amas está doente".
4 Ao ouvir isso, Jesus disse: "Essa doença não acabará em morte; é para a glória de Deus, para que o Filho de Deus seja glorificado por meio dela".
5 Jesus amava Marta, a irmã dela e Lázaro.
6 No entanto, quando ouviu falar que Lázaro estava doente, ficou mais dois dias onde estava.
7 Depois disse aos seus discípulos: "Vamos voltar para a Judéia".
8 Estes disseram: "Mestre, há pouco os judeus tentaram apedrejar-te e assim mesmo vais voltar para lá? "
9 Jesus respondeu: "O dia não tem doze horas? Quem anda de dia não tropeça, pois vê a luz deste mundo.
10 Quando anda de noite, tropeça, pois nele não há luz".
11 Depois de dizer isso, prosseguiu dizendo-lhes: "Nosso amigo Lázaro adormeceu, mas vou até lá para acordá-lo".
12 Seus discípulos responderam: "Senhor, se ele dorme, vai melhorar".
13 Jesus tinha falado de sua morte, mas os seus discípulos pensaram que ele estava falando simplesmente do sono.
14 Então lhes disse claramente: "Lázaro morreu,
15 e para o bem de vocês estou contente por não ter estado lá, para que vocês creiam. Mas, vamos até ele".
16 Então Tomé, chamado Dídimo, disse aos outros discípulos: "Vamos também para morrermos com ele".
17 Ao chegar, Jesus verificou que Lázaro já estava no sepulcro havia quatro dias.
18 Betânia distava cerca de três quilômetros de Jerusalém,
19 e muitos judeus tinham ido visitar Marta e Maria para confortá-las pela perda do irmão.
20 Quando Marta ouviu que Jesus estava chegando, foi encontrá-lo, mas Maria ficou em casa.
21 Disse Marta a Jesus: "Senhor, se estivesses aqui meu irmão não teria morrido.
22 Mas sei que, mesmo agora, Deus te dará tudo o que pedires".
23 Disse-lhe Jesus: "O seu irmão vai ressuscitar".
24 Marta respondeu: "Eu sei que ele vai ressuscitar na ressurreição, no último dia".
25 Disse-lhe Jesus: "Eu sou a ressurreição e a vida. Aquele que crê em mim, ainda que morra, viverá;
26 e quem vive e crê em mim, não morrerá eternamente. Você crê nisso? "
27 Ela lhe respondeu: "Sim, Senhor, eu tenho crido que tu és o Cristo, o Filho de Deus que devia vir ao mundo".
28 E depois de dizer isso, foi para casa e, chamando à parte Maria, disse-lhe: "O Mestre está aqui e está chamando você".
29 Ao ouvir isso, Maria levantou-se depressa e foi ao encontro dele.
30 Jesus ainda não tinha entrado no povoado, mas estava no lugar onde Marta o encontrara.
31 Quando notaram que ela se levantou depressa e saiu, os judeus, que a estavam confortando em casa, seguiram-na, supondo que ela ia ao sepulcro, para ali chorar.
32 Chegando ao lugar onde Jesus estava e vendo-o, Maria prostrou-se aos seus pés e disse: "Senhor, se estivesses aqui meu irmão não teria morrido".
33 Ao ver chorando Maria e os judeus que a acompanhavam, Jesus agitou-se no espírito e perturbou-se.
34 "Onde o colocaram? ", perguntou ele. "Vem e vê, Senhor", responderam eles.
35 Jesus chorou.
36 Então os judeus disseram: "Vejam como ele o amava! "
37 Mas alguns deles disseram: "Ele, que abriu os olhos do cego, não poderia ter impedido que este homem morresse? "
38 Jesus, outra vez profundamente comovido, foi até o sepulcro. Era uma gruta com uma pedra colocada à entrada.
39 "Tirem a pedra", disse ele. Disse Marta, irmã do morto: "Senhor, ele já cheira mal, pois já faz quatro dias".
40 Disse-lhe Jesus: "Não lhe falei que, se você cresse, veria a glória de Deus? "
41 Então tiraram a pedra. Jesus olhou para cima e disse: "Pai, eu te agradeço porque me ouviste.
42 Eu sabia que sempre me ouves, mas disse isso por causa do povo que está aqui, para que creia que tu me enviaste".
43 Depois de dizer isso, Jesus bradou em alta voz: "Lázaro, venha para fora! "
44 O morto saiu, com as mãos e os pés envolvidos em faixas de linho, e o rosto envolto num pano. Disse-lhes Jesus: "Tirem as faixas dele e deixem-no ir".
45 Muitos dos judeus que tinham vindo visitar Maria, vendo o que Jesus fizera, creram nele.
46 Mas alguns deles foram contar aos fariseus o que Jesus tinha feito.
47 Então os chefes dos sacerdotes e os fariseus convocaram uma reunião do Sinédrio. "O que estamos fazendo? ", perguntaram eles. "Aí está esse homem realizando muitos sinais miraculosos.
48 Se o deixarmos, todos crerão nele, e então os romanos virão e tirarão tanto o nosso lugar como a nossa nação".
49 Então um deles, chamado Caifás, que naquele ano era o sumo sacerdote, tomou a palavra e disse: "Nada sabeis!
50 Não percebeis que vos é melhor que morra um homem pelo povo, e que não pereça toda a nação".
51 Ele não disse isso de si mesmo, mas, sendo o sumo sacerdote naquele ano, profetizou que Jesus morreria pela nação judaica,
52 e não somente por aquela nação, mas também pelos filhos de Deus que estão espalhados, para reuni-los num povo.
53 E daquele dia em diante, resolveram tirar-lhe a vida.
54 Por essa razão, Jesus não andava mais publicamente entre os judeus. Ao invés disso, retirou-se para uma região próxima do deserto, para um povoado chamado Efraim, onde ficou com os seus discípulos.
55 Ao se aproximar a Páscoa judaica, muitos foram daquela região para Jerusalém a fim de participarem das purificações cerimoniais antes da Páscoa.
56 Continuavam procurando Jesus e, no templo, perguntavam uns aos outros: "O que vocês acham? Será que ele virá à festa? "
57 Mas os chefes dos sacerdotes e os fariseus tinham ordenado que, se alguém soubesse onde Jesus estava, o denunciasse, para que o pudessem prender.