John [Yah is gracious] 11:11-56

¹¹He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus Help of God, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”

¹²The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

¹³Now Yeshua Salvation had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.

¹⁴So Yeshua Salvation said to them plainly then, “Lazarus Help of God is dead.

¹⁵I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”

¹⁶Thomas Seeker of truth therefore, who is called Didymus Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, that we may die with him.”

¹⁷So when Yeshua Salvation came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.

¹⁸Now Bethany House of affliction was near Jerusalem City of peace, about fifteen stadia away 2 mi; 2.8 km.

¹⁹Many of the Jews Praisers had joined the women around Martha Lady mistress, Strong bitterness and Mary Rebellion, to console them concerning their brother.

²⁰Then when Martha Lady mistress, Strong bitterness heard that Yeshua Salvation was coming, she went and met him, but Mary Rebellion stayed in the house.

²¹Therefore Martha Lady mistress, Strong bitterness said to Yeshua Salvation, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.

²²Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”

²³Yeshua Salvation said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

²⁴Martha Lady mistress, Strong bitterness said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

²⁵Yeshua Salvation said to her, “ Ena Na I AM (the Living God) the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

²⁶Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

²⁷She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Messiah Anointed one, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”

²⁸When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary Rebellion, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here, and is calling you.”

²⁹When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him.

³⁰Now Yeshua Salvation had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha Lady mistress, Strong bitterness met him.

³¹Then the Jews Praisers who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary Rebellion, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”

³²Therefore when Mary Rebellion came to where Yeshua Salvation was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”

³³When Yeshua Salvation therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews Praisers weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

³⁴and said, “Where have you laid him?” They told him, “Lord, come and see.”

³⁵Yeshua Salvation wept.

³⁶The Jews Praisers therefore said, “See how much phileo ·affectionate love, high regard· he had for him!”

³⁷Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”

³⁸Yeshua Salvation therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

³⁹Yeshua Salvation said, “Take away the stone.” Martha Lady mistress, Strong bitterness, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

⁴⁰Yeshua Salvation said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”

⁴¹So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Yeshua Salvation lifted up his eyes, and said, “Abba ·Father familiar, Dear Dad·, I thank you that you listened to me.

⁴²I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”

⁴³When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus Help of God, come out!”

⁴⁴He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Yeshua Salvation said to them, “Free him, and let him go.”

⁴⁵Therefore many of the Jews Praisers, who came to Mary Rebellion and saw what Yeshua Salvation did, believed in him.

⁴⁶But some of them went away to the Pharisees Separated, and told them the things which Yeshua Salvation had done.

⁴⁷The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees Separated gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

⁴⁸If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans People from Town of flowing waters will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

⁴⁹But a certain one of them, Caiaphas Rock that hollows itself out, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,

⁵⁰nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”

⁵¹Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Yeshua Salvation would die for the nation,

⁵²and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

⁵³So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

⁵⁴Yeshua Salvation therefore walked no more openly among the Jews Praisers, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim Fruit. He stayed there with his disciples.

⁵⁵Now the Judean Person from Praise festival of Pesac ·Passover· was at hand, (the start of Nissan). Many went up from the country to Jerusalem City of peace before the Pesac ·Passover·, to purify themselves.

⁵⁶Then they sought for Yeshua Salvation and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, “What do you think— that he is not coming to the feast at all?”