Therefore, again, there came a division among the Jews, because of these words,
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and many of them said, 'He hath a demon, and is mad, why do ye hear him?'
others said, 'These sayings are not those of a demoniac; is a demon able blind men's eyes to open?'
And the dedication in Jerusalem came, and it was winter,
and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon,
the Jews, therefore, came round about him, and said to him, 'Till when our soul dost thou hold in suspense? if thou art the Christ, tell us freely.'
Jesus answered them, 'I told you, and ye do not believe; the works that I do in the name of my Father, these testify concerning me;
but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep,
according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,
and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish — to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand;
my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father;
I and the Father are one.'
Therefore, again, did the Jews take up stones that they may stone him;
Jesus answered them, 'Many good works did I shew you from my Father; because of which work of them do ye stone me?'
The Jews answered him, saying, 'For a good work we do not stone thee, but for evil speaking, and because thou, being a man, dost make thyself God.'
Jesus answered them, 'Is it not having been written in your law: I said, ye are gods?
if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)
of him whom the Father did sanctify, and send to the world, do ye say — Thou speakest evil, because I said, Son of God I am?
if I do not the works of my Father, do not believe me;
and if I do, even if me ye may not believe, the works believe, that ye may know and may believe that in me [is] the Father, and I in Him.'
Therefore were they seeking again to seize him, and he went forth out of their hand,
and went away again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John was at first baptizing, and remained there,
and many came unto him, and said — 'John, indeed, did no sign, and all things, as many as John said about this one were true;'
and many did believe in him there.
And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister —
and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing —
therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, 'Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;'
and Jesus having heard, said, 'This ailment is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.'
And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,
when, therefore, he heard that he is ailing, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days,
then after this, he saith to the disciples, 'We may go to Judea again;'
the disciples say to him, 'Rabbi, now were the Jews seeking to stone thee, and again thou dost go thither!'
Jesus answered, 'Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;
and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'
These things he said, and after this he saith to them, 'Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;'
therefore said his disciples, 'Sir, if he hath fallen asleep, he will be saved;'
but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh.
Then, therefore, Jesus said to them freely, 'Lazarus hath died;
and I rejoice, for your sake, (that ye may believe,) that I was not there; but we may go to him;'
therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, 'We may go — we also, that we may die with him,'
Jesus, therefore, having come, found him having been four days already in the tomb.
And Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off,
and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;
Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus doth come, met him, and Mary kept sitting in the house.
Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, 'Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;
but even now, I have known that whatever thou mayest ask of God, God will give to thee;'
Jesus saith to her, 'Thy brother shall rise again.'
Martha saith to him, 'I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;'
Jesus said to her, 'I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;
and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die — to the age;
believest thou this?' she saith to him, 'Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.'
And these things having said, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, 'The Teacher is present, and doth call thee;'
she, when she heard, riseth up quickly, and doth come to him;
and Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was in the place where Martha met him;
the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying — 'She doth go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.'
Mary, therefore, when she came where Jesus was, having seen him, fell at his feet, saying to him, 'Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;'
Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said,
'Where have ye laid him?' they say to him, 'Sir, come and see;'
Jesus wept.
The Jews, therefore, said, 'Lo, how he was loving him!'
and certain of them said, 'Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?'
Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it,
Jesus saith, 'Take ye away the stone;' the sister of him who hath died — Martha — saith to him, 'Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;'
Jesus saith to her, 'Said I not to thee, that if thou mayest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?'
They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, 'Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me;
and I knew that Thou always dost hear me, but, because of the multitude that is standing by, I said [it], that they may believe that Thou didst send me.'
And these things saying, with a loud voice he cried out, 'Lazarus, come forth;'
and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his visage with a napkin was bound about; Jesus saith to them, 'Loose him, and suffer to go.'
Many, therefore, of the Jews who came unto Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in him;
but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did;
the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, 'What may we do? because this man doth many signs?
if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'
and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, 'Ye have not known anything,
nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'
And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation,
and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.
From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him;
Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples.
And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;
they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, 'What doth appear to you — that he may not come to the feast?'
and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew [it], so that they may seize him.
Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus, who had died, whom he raised out of the dead;
they made, therefore, to him a supper there, and Martha was ministering, and Lazarus was one of those reclining together (at meat) with him;
Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe with her hair his feet, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment.
Therefore saith one of his disciples — Judas Iscariot, of Simon, who is about to deliver him up —
'Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'
and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying.
Jesus, therefore, said, 'Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,
for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.'
A great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that he is there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that Lazarus also they may see, whom he raised out of the dead;
and the chief priests took counsel, that also Lazarus they may kill,
because on account of him many of the Jews were going away, and were believing in Jesus.
On the morrow, a great multitude that came to the feast, having heard that Jesus doth come to Jerusalem,
took the branches of the palms, and went forth to meet him, and were crying, 'Hosanna, blessed [is] he who is coming in the name of the Lord — the king of Israel;'
and Jesus having found a young ass did sit upon it, according as it is written,
'Fear not, daughter of Sion, lo, thy king doth come, sitting on an ass' colt.'
And these things his disciples did not know at the first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were having been written about him, and these things they did to him.
The multitude, therefore, who are with him, were testifying that he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and did raise him out of the dead;
because of this also did the multitude meet him, because they heard of his having done this sign,
the Pharisees, therefore, said among themselves, 'Ye see that ye do not gain anything, lo, the world did go after him.'