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John 11
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John 11
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Chapter 11
The Raising of Lazarus.[a] 1 Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany,(A) the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill. 3 So the sisters sent word to him, saying, “Master, the one you love is ill.” 4 When Jesus heard this he said, “This illness is not to end in death,[b] but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”(B) 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So when he heard that he was ill, he remained for two days in the place where he was. 7 Then after this he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.” 8 The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and you want to go back there?”(C) 9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If one walks during the day,(D) he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.(E) 10 But if one walks at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”[c] 11 He said this, and then told them, “Our friend Lazarus is asleep, but I am going to awaken him.” 12 So the disciples said to him, “Master, if he is asleep, he will be saved.” 13 But Jesus was talking about his death, while they thought that he meant ordinary sleep.(F) 14 So then Jesus said to them clearly, “Lazarus has died. 15 And I am glad for you that I was not there, that you may believe. Let us go to him.” 16 So Thomas, called Didymus,[d] said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go to die with him.”(G)
17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, only about two miles[e] away. 19 And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.(H) 20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat at home. 21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.(I) 22 [But] even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.” 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise.” 24 Martha said to him, “I know he will rise, in the resurrection on the last day.”(J) 25 Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,(K) 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” 27 [f](L)She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world.”
28 When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary secretly, saying, “The teacher is here and is asking for you.” 29 As soon as she heard this, she rose quickly and went to him. 30 For Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still where Martha had met him. 31 So when the Jews who were with her in the house comforting her saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, presuming that she was going to the tomb to weep there. 32 When Mary came to 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 Jews who had come with her weeping, he became perturbed[g] and deeply troubled, 34 and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Sir, come and see.” 35 And Jesus wept.(M) 36 So the Jews said, “See how he loved him.” 37 But some of them said, “Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man have done something so that this man would not have died?”
38 So Jesus, perturbed again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay across it. 39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the dead man’s sister, said to him, “Lord, by now there will be a stench; he has been dead for four days.” 40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?” 41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father,[h] I thank you for hearing me. 42 I know that you always hear me; but because of the crowd here I have said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”(N) 43 And when he had said this, he cried out in a loud voice,[i] “Lazarus, come out!” 44 The dead man came out, tied hand and foot with burial bands, and his face was wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go.”
Session of the Sanhedrin. 45 Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what he had done began to believe in him.(O) 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.(P) 48 If we leave him alone, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come[j] and take away both our land and our nation.” 49 (Q)But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year,[k] said to them, “You know nothing, 50 nor do you consider that it is better for you that one man should die instead of the people, so that the whole nation may not perish.” 51 He did not say this on his own, but since he was high priest for that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, 52 and not only for the nation, but also to gather into one the dispersed children of God.[l] 53 So from that day on they planned to kill him.(R)
54 So Jesus no longer walked about in public among the Jews, but he left for the region near the desert, to a town called Ephraim,[m] and there he remained with his disciples.
The Last Passover. 55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before Passover to purify[n] themselves.(S) 56 They looked for Jesus and said to one another as they were in the temple area, “What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?” 57 For the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should inform them, so that they might arrest him.
Footnotes
- 11:1–44 The raising of Lazarus, the longest continuous narrative in John outside of the passion account, is the climax of the signs. It leads directly to the decision of the Sanhedrin to kill Jesus. The theme of life predominates. Lazarus is a token of the real life that Jesus dead and raised will give to all who believe in him. Johannine irony is found in the fact that Jesus’ gift of life leads to his own death. The story is not found in the synoptics, but cf. Mk 5:21 and parallels; Lk 7:11–17. There are also parallels between this story and Luke’s parable of the rich man and poor Lazarus (Lk 16:19–31). In both a man named Lazarus dies; in Luke, there is a request that he return to convince his contemporaries of the need for faith and repentance, while in John, Lazarus does return and some believe but others do not.
- 11:4 Not to end in death: this is misunderstood by the disciples as referring to physical death, but it is meant as spiritual death.
- 11:10 The light is not in him: the ancients apparently did not grasp clearly the entry of light through the eye; they seem to have thought of it as being in the eye; cf. Lk 11:34; Mt 6:23.
- 11:16 Called Didymus: Didymus is the Greek word for twin. Thomas is derived from the Aramaic word for twin; in an ancient Syriac version and in the Gospel of Thomas (80:11–12) his given name, Judas, is supplied.
- 11:18 About two miles: literally, “about fifteen stades”; a stade was 607 feet.
- 11:27 The titles here are a summary of titles given to Jesus earlier in the gospel.
- 11:33 Became perturbed: a startling phrase in Greek, literally, “He snorted in spirit,” perhaps in anger at the presence of evil (death).
- 11:41 Father: in Aramaic, ’abbā’. See note on Mk 14:36.
- 11:43 Cried out in a loud voice: a dramatization of Jn 5:28; “the hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice.”
- 11:48 The Romans will come: Johannine irony; this is precisely what happened after Jesus’ death.
- 11:49 That year: emphasizes the conjunction of the office and the year. Actually, Caiaphas was high priest A.D. 18–36. The Jews attributed a gift of prophecy, sometimes unconscious, to the high priest.
- 11:52 Dispersed children of God: perhaps the “other sheep” of Jn 10:16.
- 11:54 Ephraim is usually located about twelve miles northeast of Jerusalem, where the mountains descend into the Jordan valley.
- 11:55 Purify: prescriptions for purity were based on Ex 19:10–11, 15; Nm 9:6–14; 2 Chr 30:1–3, 15–18.
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Muerte de Lázaro
11 Había un hombre enfermo llamado Lázaro, que era de Betania, el pueblo de María y su hermana Marta. 2 María era la misma que ungió con perfume al Señor y le secó los pies con sus cabellos. 3 Las dos hermanas mandaron a decirle a Jesús: «Señor, tu amigo querido está enfermo».
4 Cuando Jesús oyó esto, dijo: «Esta enfermedad no terminará en muerte, sino que es para la gloria de Dios, para que por ella el Hijo de Dios sea glorificado».
5 Jesús amaba a Marta, a su hermana y a Lázaro. 6 A pesar de eso, cuando oyó que Lázaro estaba enfermo, se quedó dos días más donde se encontraba. 7 Después dijo a sus discípulos:
—Volvamos a Judea.
8 —Rabí —objetaron ellos—, hace muy poco los judíos intentaron apedrearte, ¿y todavía quieres volver allá?
9 —¿Acaso el día no tiene doce horas? —respondió Jesús—. El que anda de día no tropieza, porque tiene la luz de este mundo. 10 Pero el que anda de noche sí tropieza, porque no tiene luz.
11 Dicho esto, añadió:
—Nuestro amigo Lázaro duerme, pero voy a despertarlo.
12 —Señor —respondieron sus discípulos—, si duerme, es que va a recuperarse.
13 Jesús hablaba de la muerte de Lázaro, pero sus discípulos pensaron que se refería al sueño natural. 14 Por eso les dijo claramente:
—Lázaro ha muerto, 15 y por causa de ustedes me alegro de no haber estado allí, para que crean. Pero vamos a verlo.
16 Entonces Tomás, apodado el Gemelo,[a] dijo a los otros discípulos:
—Vayamos también nosotros para morir con él.
Jesús consuela a las hermanas de Lázaro
17 A su llegada, Jesús se encontró con que Lázaro llevaba ya cuatro días en el sepulcro. 18 Betania estaba cerca de Jerusalén, como a tres kilómetros[b] de distancia, 19 y muchos judíos habían ido a casa de Marta y de María a darles el pésame por la muerte de su hermano. 20 Cuando Marta supo que Jesús llegaba, fue a su encuentro; pero María se quedó en la casa.
21 —Señor —dijo Marta a Jesús—, si hubieras estado aquí, mi hermano no habría muerto. 22 Pero yo sé que aun ahora Dios te dará todo lo que le pidas.
23 —Tu hermano resucitará —le dijo Jesús.
24 —Yo sé que resucitará en la resurrección, en el día final —respondió Marta.
25 Entonces Jesús dijo:
—Yo soy la resurrección y la vida. El que cree en mí vivirá, aunque muera; 26 y todo el que vive y cree en mí no morirá jamás. ¿Crees esto?
27 Marta dijo:
—Sí, Señor; yo creo que tú eres el Cristo, el Hijo de Dios, el que había de venir al mundo.
28 Dicho esto, Marta regresó a la casa y, llamando a su hermana María, le dijo en privado:
—El Maestro está aquí y te llama.
29 Cuando María oyó esto, se levantó rápidamente y fue a su encuentro. 30 Jesús aún no había entrado en el pueblo, sino que todavía estaba en el lugar donde Marta se había encontrado con él. 31 Los judíos que habían estado con María en la casa, dándole el pésame, al ver que se había levantado y había salido de prisa, la siguieron, pensando que iba al sepulcro a llorar.
32 Cuando María llegó adonde estaba Jesús y lo vio, se arrojó a sus pies y dijo:
—Señor, si hubieras estado aquí, mi hermano no habría muerto.
33 Al ver llorar a María y a los judíos que la habían acompañado, Jesús se turbó y se conmovió profundamente.
34 —¿Dónde lo han puesto? —preguntó.
—Ven a verlo, Señor —le respondieron.
35 Jesús lloró.
36 —¡Miren cuánto lo quería! —dijeron los judíos.
37 Pero algunos de ellos comentaban:
—Este, que le abrió los ojos al ciego, ¿no podría haber impedido que Lázaro muriera?
Jesús resucita a Lázaro
38 Conmovido una vez más, Jesús se acercó al sepulcro. Era una cueva cuya entrada estaba tapada con una piedra.
39 —Quiten la piedra —ordenó Jesús.
Marta, la hermana del difunto, objetó:
—Señor, ya debe oler mal, pues lleva cuatro días allí.
40 —¿No te dije que si crees verás la gloria de Dios? —le contestó Jesús.
41 Entonces quitaron la piedra. Jesús, alzando la vista, dijo:
—Padre, te doy gracias porque me has escuchado. 42 Ya sabía yo que siempre me escuchas, pero lo dije por la gente que está aquí presente, para que crean que tú me enviaste.
43 Dicho esto, gritó con fuerza:
—¡Lázaro, sal fuera!
44 El muerto salió con vendas en las manos y en los pies, y el rostro cubierto con un sudario.
—Quítenle las vendas y dejen que se vaya —dijo Jesús.
La conspiración para matar a Jesús
45 Muchos de los judíos que habían ido a ver a María y que habían presenciado lo hecho por Jesús creyeron en él. 46 Pero algunos de ellos fueron a ver a los fariseos y les contaron lo que Jesús había hecho. 47 Entonces los jefes de los sacerdotes y los fariseos convocaron una reunión del Consejo.
—¿Qué vamos a hacer? —dijeron—. Este hombre está haciendo muchas señales. 48 Si lo dejamos seguir así, todos van a creer en él. Entonces vendrán los romanos y acabarán con nuestro lugar sagrado, incluso con nuestra nación.
49 Uno de ellos, llamado Caifás, que ese año era el sumo sacerdote, les dijo:
—¡Ustedes no saben nada en absoluto! 50 No entienden que les conviene más que muera un solo hombre por el pueblo y no que perezca toda la nación.
51 Pero esto no lo dijo por su propia cuenta, sino que como era sumo sacerdote ese año profetizó que Jesús moriría por la nación judía 52 y no solo por esa nación, también por los hijos de Dios que estaban dispersos, para congregarlos y unificarlos. 53 Así que desde ese día convinieron en quitarle la vida.
54 Por eso Jesús ya no andaba en público entre los judíos. Se retiró más bien a una región cercana al desierto, a un pueblo llamado Efraín, donde se quedó con sus discípulos.
55 Faltaba poco para la Pascua judía, así que muchos subieron del campo a Jerusalén para su purificación ceremonial antes de la Pascua. 56 Andaban buscando a Jesús y, mientras estaban en el Templo, comentaban entre sí: «¿Qué les parece? ¿Acaso no vendrá a la fiesta?». 57 Por su parte, los jefes de los sacerdotes y los fariseos habían dado la orden de que, si alguien llegaba a saber dónde estaba Jesús, debía denunciarlo para que lo arrestaran.
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