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 有一個患病的人，名叫拉撒路，住在伯大尼，就是馬利亞和她姊姊馬大的村莊。

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

2 這馬利亞就是那用香膏抹主，又用頭髮擦他腳的；患病的拉撒路是她的兄弟。

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

3 她姊妹兩個就打發人去見耶穌，說：「主啊，你所愛的人病了。」

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 耶穌聽見，就說：「這病不至於死，乃是為上帝的榮耀，叫上帝的兒子因此得榮耀。」

5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

5 耶穌素來愛馬大和她妹子並拉撒路。

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

6 聽見拉撒路病了，就在所居之地仍住了兩天。

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

7 然後對門徒說：「我們再往猶太去吧。」

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

8 門徒說：「拉比，猶太人近來要拿石頭打你，你還往那裏去嗎？」

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 耶穌回答說：「白日不是有十二小時嗎？人在白日走路，就不致跌倒，因為看見這世上的光。

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

10 若在黑夜走路，就必跌倒，因為他沒有光。」

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 耶穌說了這話，隨後對他們說：「我們的朋友拉撒路睡了，我去叫醒他。」

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

12 門徒說：「主啊，他若睡了，就必好了。」

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

13 耶穌這話是指着他死說的，他們卻以為是說照常睡了。

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

14 耶穌就明明地告訴他們說：「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 我沒有在那裏就歡喜，這是為你們的緣故，好叫你們相信。如今我們可以往他那裏去吧。」

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

16 多馬，又稱為低土馬，就對那同作門徒的說：「我們也去和他同死吧。」

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

17 耶穌到了，就知道拉撒路在墳墓裏已經四天了。

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

18 伯大尼離耶路撒冷不遠，約有六里路。

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

19 有好些猶太人來看馬大和馬利亞，要為她們的兄弟安慰她們。

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

20 馬大聽見耶穌來了，就出去迎接他；馬利亞卻仍然坐在家裏。

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

21 馬大對耶穌說：「主啊，你若早在這裏，我兄弟必不死。

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

22 就是現在，我也知道，你無論向上帝求甚麼，上帝也必賜給你。」

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

23 耶穌說：「你兄弟必然復活。」

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

24 馬大說：「我知道在末日復活的時候，他必復活。」

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

25 耶穌對她說：「復活在我，生命也在我。信我的人雖然死了，也必復活；

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遠不死。你信這話嗎？」

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

27 馬大說：「主啊，是的，我信你是基督，是上帝的兒子，就是那要臨到世界的。」

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 馬大說了這話，就回去暗暗地叫她妹子馬利亞，說：「夫子來了，叫你。」

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

29 馬利亞聽見了，就急忙起來，到耶穌那裏去。

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

30 那時，耶穌還沒有進村子，仍在馬大迎接他的地方。

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 那些同馬利亞在家裏安慰她的猶太人，見她急忙起來出去，就跟着她，以為她要往墳墓那裏去哭。

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 馬利亞到了耶穌那裏，看見他，就俯伏在他腳前，說：「主啊，你若早在這裏，我兄弟必不死。」

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 耶穌看見她哭，並看見與她同來的猶太人也哭，就心裏悲歎，又甚憂愁，

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

34 便說：「你們把他安放在哪裏？」他們回答說：「請主來看。」

35 Jesus wept.

35 耶穌哭了。

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

36 猶太人就說：「你看他愛這人是何等懇切。」

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

37 其中有人說：「他既然開了瞎子的眼睛，豈不能叫這人不死嗎？」

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

38 耶穌又心裏悲歎，來到墳墓前；那墳墓是個洞，有一塊石頭擋着。

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 耶穌說：「你們把石頭挪開。」那死人的姊姊馬大對他說：「主啊，他現在必是臭了，因為他死了已經四天了。」

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

40 耶穌說：「我不是對你說過，你若信，就必看見上帝的榮耀嗎？」

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 他們就把石頭挪開。耶穌舉目望天，說：「父啊，我感謝你，因為你已經聽我。

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 我也知道你常聽我，但我說這話是為周圍站着的眾人，叫他們信是你差了我來。」

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

43 說了這話，就大聲呼叫說：「拉撒路出來！」

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 那死人就出來了，手腳裹着布，臉上包着手巾。耶穌對他們說：「解開，叫他走！」

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

45 那些來看馬利亞的猶太人見了耶穌所做的事，就多有信他的；

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

46 但其中也有去見法利賽人的，將耶穌所做的事告訴他們。

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

47 祭司長和法利賽人聚集公會，說：「這人行好些神蹟，我們怎麼辦呢？

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 若這樣由着他，人人都要信他，羅馬人也要來奪我們的地土和我們的百姓。」

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

49 內中有一個人，名叫該亞法，本年作大祭司，對他們說：「你們不知道甚麼。

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 獨不想一個人替百姓死，免得通國滅亡，就是你們的益處。」

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 他這話不是出於自己，是因他本年作大祭司，所以預言耶穌將要替這一國死；

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

52 也不但替這一國死，並要將上帝四散的子民都聚集歸一。

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

53 從那日起，他們就商議要殺耶穌。

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，耶穌不再顯然行在猶太人中間，就離開那裏往靠近曠野的地方去，到了一座城，名叫以法蓮，就在那裏和門徒同住。

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

55 猶太人的逾越節近了，有許多人從鄉下上耶路撒冷去，要在節前潔淨自己。

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 他們就尋找耶穌，站在殿裏彼此說：「你們的意思如何，他不來過節嗎？」

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 那時，祭司長和法利賽人早已吩咐說，若有人知道耶穌在哪裏，就要報明，好去拿他。