John 11

1 At this time a man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

1 伯大尼村有个名叫拉撒路的人病倒了。伯大尼是玛丽亚和她姐姐玛大居住的村庄。

2 (Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was to anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet with her hair.)

2 就是这个玛丽亚后来用香膏抹主，又用自己的头发擦干祂的脚，患病的拉撒路是她的弟弟。

3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”

3 她们两姊妹托人去告诉耶稣，说：“主啊，你所爱的人病了！”

4 When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

4 耶稣听见后，说：“这病不至于死，而是为了上帝的荣耀，使祂的儿子借此得到荣耀。”

5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

5 耶稣一向爱玛大、她妹妹和拉撒路，

6 So on hearing that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was for two days,

6 可是祂听到拉撒路有病的消息后，仍在原地逗留了两天，

7 and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”

7 然后才对门徒说：“我们回犹太吧！”

8 “Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”

8 门徒说：“老师，犹太人近来想拿石头打你，你还要去那里吗？”

9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.

9 耶稣说：“白天不是有十二个小时吗？人在白天走路，不会跌倒，因为他看得见这世上的光。

10 But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”

10 人在夜间走路，才会跌倒，因为没有光。”

11 After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”

11 接着耶稣又说：“我们的朋友拉撒路已经睡了，我去叫醒他。”

12 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get better.”

12 门徒说：“主啊，他如果睡了，肯定会好的。”

13 They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus.

13 其实耶稣是指他已经死了，门徒却以为他真的睡了。

14 So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,

14 于是，耶稣清楚地对他们说：“拉撒路死了。

15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

15 为了你们的缘故，我很高兴自己不在那里，好叫你们信我。现在我们可以去了。”

16 Then Thomas called Didymus said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”

16 绰号“双胞胎”的多马对其他门徒说：“我们也去跟祂一块儿死吧。”

17 When Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus had already spent four days in the tomb.

17 耶稣到了伯大尼，得知拉撒路已经在坟墓里四天了。

18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, a little less than two miles away,

18 伯大尼离耶路撒冷不远，大约只有三公里的路，

19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother.

19 很多犹太人来看望玛大和玛丽亚，为她们兄弟的事来安慰她们。

20 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him, but Mary stayed at home.

20 玛大听说耶稣来了，就去迎接祂，玛丽亚却仍然坐在家里。

21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.

21 玛大对耶稣说：“主啊，你如果早在这里，我弟弟就不会死了。

22 But even now I know that God will give You whatever You ask of Him.”

22 就是现在我也知道你无论向上帝求什么，上帝必定赐给你。”

23 “Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.

23 耶稣说：“你弟弟必定复活。”

24 Martha replied, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

24 玛大说：“我知道，在末日复活的时候，他必复活。”

25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

25 耶稣说：“我是复活，我是生命。信我的人虽然死了，也必复活。

26 And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”

26 凡活着信我的人必永远不死。你相信吗？”

27 “Yes, Lord,” she answered, “I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”

27 玛大说：“主啊，我信！我相信你是来到世界的基督，是上帝的儿子。”

28 After Martha had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside to tell her, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”

28 玛大说完了，就回去悄悄地告诉她妹妹玛丽亚：“老师来了，祂叫你去。”

29 And when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him.

29 玛丽亚听了，急忙起来到耶稣那里。

30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.

30 那时，耶稣还没有进村子，仍在玛大迎接祂的地方。

31 When the Jews who were in the house consoling Mary saw how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.

31 那些在家里安慰玛丽亚的犹太人，见她匆匆忙忙地起来出去了，以为她要去坟墓那里哭，就跟着出去。

32 When Mary came to Jesus and saw Him, she fell at His feet and said, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”

32 玛丽亚来到耶稣那里，俯伏在祂脚前说：“主啊，你如果早在这里，我弟弟就不会死了。”

33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

33 耶稣看见她和陪她来的犹太人都在哭，心中非常激愤和难过，

34 “Where have you put him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered.

34 便问：“你们把他葬在哪里了？” 他们答道：“主啊，你来看。”

35 Jesus wept.

35 耶稣哭了。

36 Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”

36 犹太人说：“你看！祂多么爱拉撒路啊！”

37 But some of them asked, “Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept Lazarus from dying?”

37 其中也有人说：“祂既然能医治瞎眼的人，难道不能叫这个人不死吗？”

38 Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.

38 耶稣又非常激愤地来到坟墓前。那坟墓是个洞，洞口堵着一块大石头。

39 “Take away the stone,” Jesus said. “Lord, by now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man. “It has already been four days.”

39 耶稣说：“把石头挪开。” 死者的姐姐玛大对祂说：“主啊，他死了四天了，肯定臭了。”

40 Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”

40 耶稣说：“我不是跟你说过，只要你信，就会看见上帝的荣耀吗？”

41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

41 于是，他们把石头挪开，耶稣望着天说：“父啊，我感谢你，因为你已垂听了我的祷告，

42 I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.”

42 我知道你常常垂听我的祷告。我这样说是为了周围站着的众人，好叫他们相信是你差我来的。”

43 After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

43 说完，就大声呼喊：“拉撒路，出来！”

44 The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.

44 那死者就出来了，手脚都缠着布条，脸上也包着布。 耶稣对他们说：“给他解开，让他走！”

45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.

45 许多来看望玛丽亚的犹太人看见耶稣的作为，就信了祂，

46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

46 但也有些人去见法利赛人，把耶稣所行的事告诉他们。

47 Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.

47 祭司长和法利赛人便召开公会会议，说：“这人行了许多神迹，我们该怎么办呢？

48 If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

48 如果让祂这样继续下去，所有的人都会信祂，那时罗马人一定会来夺取我们的圣地，掳掠我们的人民。”

49 But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

49 那年担任大祭司的该亚法对他们说：“你们什么都不懂！

50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”

50 你们没有认识到，对你们而言，与其整个民族灭亡，不如一人替众人死。”

51 Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,

51 其实这句话不是出于他自己，只因那年他是大祭司，上帝借着他预言耶稣将要替犹太民族死。

52 and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.

52 祂不单是要替犹太民族死，也要把散居在各处的上帝的儿女聚集在一起。

53 So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

53 从那天起，他们就计划要杀害耶稣，

54 As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.

54 所以耶稣不再公开地在犹太人中间露面。祂离开那里，前往靠近旷野的地方，到了以法莲城，就和门徒住下来。

55 Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.

55 犹太人的逾越节快到了，有很多人从乡下上耶路撒冷，预备在过节前洁净自己。

56 They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? Will He come to the feast at all?”

56 他们四处寻找耶稣，又彼此在圣殿里谈论：“你们怎么想？祂不会来过节吧？”

57 But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.

57 当时祭司长和法利赛人早已下令，任何人知道耶稣在哪里，都要报告，他们好去抓祂。