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John 11

2 Christ raiseth Lazarus from death. 47 The high Priests and Pharises gather a counsel against him. 50 Caiaphas prophecieth. 54 Christ getteth him out of the way.
1.And a certain man was sick, named Lazarus of Bethania, the town of Marie, and her sister Martha.
2.(And it was that *Marie which anointed the Lord with ointment, & wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
3.Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest, is sick.
4.When Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not aunto 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.And after he had heard that he was sick, yet abode he two days still in the same place where he was.
7.Then after that, said he to his disciples, Let us go into Judea again.
8.The disciples said unto him, Master, the Jews lately sought to *stone thee, and doest thou go thither again.
9.Jesus answered, Are there not btwelve hours in the day? If a man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
10.But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
11.These things spake he, and after he said unto them, Our friend Lazarus slepeth: but I go to wake him up.
12.Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he cshall be safe.
13.Howbeit, Jesus spake of his death: but they though that he had spoken of the ^natural sleep.
14.Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
15.And I am glad for your sakes, that I was not there, that ye may believe: but let us go unto him.
16.Then said Thomas (which is called dDidymus) unto his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
17.¶ Then came Jesus, and found that he had line in the grave four days already.
18.(Now Bethania was near unto Jerusalem, about efifteen furlongs off.)
19.And many of the Jews were come to Martha and Marie to comfort them for their brother.
20.Then Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him: but Marie sat still in the house.
21.Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou haddest been here, my brother had not been dead.
22.But now fI know also, that whatsoever thou askest of God, God will give it thee.
23.Jesus said unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
24.Martha said unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25.Jesus said unto her, gI am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
26.And whosoever liveth, and believeth in me, shall never die. Believest thou this?
27.She said unto him, Yea, Lord, I believe that thou art 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 Marie her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.
29.And when she heard it, she arose quickly, & came unto him.
30.For Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in the place where Martha met him.
31.The Jews then which were with her in the house, & comforted her, when they saw Marie, that she rose up hhastily, & went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave, to weep there.
32.Then when Marie was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou haddest been here, my brother had not been dead.
33.When Jesus therefore saw her weep, and the Jews also weep which came with her, he igroaned in the spirit, and was troubled in him self,
34.And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come, and see.
35.And Jesus kwept.
36.Then said the Jews, Behold, how he loved him.
37.And some of them said, Could not he, which opened the eyes of the blind, have made also, that this man should not have died?
38.Jesus therefore again groaned in him self, and came to the grave. And it was a cave, and a stone was laid upon it.
39.Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha the sister of him that was dead, said unto him, Lord, he stinketh already: for he hath been dead four days.
40.Jesus said unto her, Said I not unto thee, that if thou diddest believe, thou shuldest see the lglory of God?
41.Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lift up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee, because thou hast heard me.
42.I know that thou hearest me always, but because of the people that stand by, I said it, that they may believe, that thou hast sent me.
43.As he had spoken these things, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
44.Then he that was dead, came forth, bound hand and foot with bands, and his face was bound with a napkin. Jesus said unto them, Lose him, and let him go.
45.¶ Then many of the Jews, which came to Marie, and had seen the things, which Jesus did, believed in him.
46.But some of them went their way to the Pharises, and told them what things Jesus had done.
47.Then gathered the high Priests, and the Pharises a council, and said, What shall we do? For this man doeth many miracles.
48.If mwe let him thus alone, all men will believe in him, and the Romaines will come and take away both our place, & the nation.
49.Then one of them named Caiaphas, which was the high Priest nthat same year, said unto them, Ye perceive nothing at all,
50.Nor yet do you consider that it is expedient for us, that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
51.This spake he not of him self: but being high Priest that same year, he oprophesied that Jesus should die for the nation:
52.And not for the nation only, but that he should gather together in one the children of God, which are scattered.
53.Then from that day forth they consulted together, to put him to death.
54.Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
55.¶ And the Jew’s Passover was at hand, and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to ppurify them selves.
56.Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among them selves, as they stood in the Temple, What think ye, that he cometh not to the feast?
57.Now both the high Priests and the Pharises had given a commandment, that if any man knewe where he were, he should shewe it, that they might take him.

Notes

2-*.
Chap. 12.3, Mat. 26.7.
4-a.
For although he died, yet being restored so soon to life, it was almost no death in comparison.
8-*.
Chap. 7.30, 8.59, and 10.33.
9-b.
He that walks in his vocation, and has the light of God for his guide, needs to fear no dangers. The day also, both summer and winter was with the Jews divided into 12 hours.
12-c.
They laboured to stay Christ from going into Judea, as though there had been no need.
13-^.
Or, slumbering sleep.
16-d.
Which signifies in our tongue, a twin in birth.
18-e.
Which were almost two mile.
22-f.
She shows some faith, which not withstanding was almost overcome by her affections.
25-g.
Christ restores us from death to give us everlasting life.
31-h.
Wherein she declared her affection & reverence that she bare to Christ.
33-i.
For compassion: for he felt our miseries, as though he suffered the like.
35-k.
We read not that his affections were so excessive that he kept no measure, as we do in our sorrows, joys, and other affections.
40-l.
That is, a miracle whereby God’s Name should be glorified.
48-m.
They resist God, thinking to hinder his work by their own policies.
49-n.
Or, for that present time.
51-o.
God made him to speak, neither could his impiety let God’s purpose who caused this wicked man even as he did Balaam, to be an instrument of the holy Ghost.
55-p.
Because they thought hereby to make themselves more holy against they should eat the Passover: but they were not commanded by God to use this ceremony.