Juan 11

1Había uno que estaba enfermo, Lázaro de Betania, la aldea de María y de Marta su hermana.

2María era aquella que ungió con perfumes al Señor y le enjugó los pies con sus cabellos. Su hermano Lázaro estaba, pues, enfermo.

3Las hermanas le enviaron a decir: “Señor, el que Tú amas está enfermo”.

4Al oír esto, Jesús dijo: “Esta enfermedad no es mortal, sino para la gloria de Dios, para que el Hijo de Dios sea por ella glorificado”.

5Y Jesús amaba a Marta y a su hermana y a Lázaro.

6Después de haber oído que estaba enfermo se quedó aún dos días allí donde se encontraba.

7Solo entonces dijo a sus discípulos: “Volvamos a Judea”.

8Sus discípulos le dijeron: “Rabí, hace poco te buscaban los judíos para lapidarte, ¿y Tú vuelves allá?”

9Jesús repuso: “¿No tiene el día doce horas? Si uno anda de día, no tropieza, porque tiene luz de este mundo.

10Pero si anda de noche, tropieza, porque no tiene luz”.

11Así habló Él; después les dijo: “Lázaro nuestro amigo, se ha dormido; pero voy a ir a despertarlo”.

12Dijéronle los discípulos: “Señor, si duerme, sanará”.

13Mas Jesús había hablado de su muerte, y ellos creyeron que hablaba del sueño.

14Entonces Jesús les dijo claramente: “Lázaro ha muerto.

15Y me alegro de no haber estado allí a causa de vosotros, para que creáis. Pero vayamos a él”.

16Entonces Tomás, el llamado Dídimo, dijo a los otros discípulos: “Vayamos también nosotros a morir con Él”.

17Al llegar, oyó Jesús que llevaba ya cuatro días en el sepulcro.

18Betania se encuentra cerca de Jerusalén, a unos quince estadios.

19Muchos judíos habían ido a casa de Marta y María para consolarlas por causa de su hermano.

20Cuando Marta supo que Jesús llegaba, fue a su encuentro, en tanto que María se quedó en casa.

21Marta dijo, pues, a Jesús: “Señor, si hubieses estado aquí, no habría muerto mi hermano.

22Pero sé que lo que pidieres a Dios, te lo concederá”.

23Díjole Jesús: “Tu hermano resucitará”.

24Marta repuso: “Sé que resucitará en la resurrección en el último día”.

25Replicole Jesús: “Yo soy la resurrección y la vida; quien cree en Mí, aunque muera, revivirá.

26Y todo viviente y creyente en Mí, no morirá jamás. ¿Lo crees tú?”

27Ella le respondió: “Sí, Señor. Yo creo que Tú eres el Cristo, el Hijo de, Dios, el que viene a este mundo”.

28Dicho esto, se fue a llamar a María, su hermana, y le dijo en secreto: “El maestro está ahí y te llama”.

29Al oír esto, ella se levantó apresuradamente, y fue a Él.

30Jesús no había llegado todavía a la aldea, sino que aún estaba en el lugar donde Marta lo había encontrado.

31Los judíos que estaban con María en la casa, consolándola, al verla levantarse tan súbitamente y salir, le siguieron, pensando que iba a la tumba para llorar allí.

32Cuando María llegó al lugar donde estaba Jesús, al verlo se echó a sus pies, y le dijo: “Señor, si Tú hubieras estado aquí, no habría muerto mi hermano”.

33y Jesús, viéndola llorar, y llorar también a los judíos que la acompañaban se estremeció en su espíritu, y se turbó a sí mismo.

34Y dijo: “¿Dónde lo habéis puesto?” Le respondieron: “Señor, ven a ver”.

35Y Jesús lloró.

36Los judíos dijeron: “¡Cuánto lo amaba!”

37Algunos de entre ellos, sin embargo, dijeron: “El que abrió los ojos del ciego, ¿no podía hacer que este no muriese?”

38Jesús de nuevo estremeciéndose en su espíritu, llegó a la tumba: era una cueva; y tenía una piedra puesta encima.

39Y dijo Jesús: “Levantad la piedra”. Marta, hermana del difunto, le observó: “Señor, hiede ya, porque es el cuarto día”.

40Repúsole Jesús: “¿No te he dicho que, si creyeres, verás la gloria de Dios?”

41Alzaron, pues, la piedra. Entonces Jesús levantó los ojos a lo alto y dijo: “Padre, te doy gracias por haberme oído.

42Bien sabía que siempre me oyes, mas lo dije por causa del pueblo que me rodea, para que crean que eres Tú quien me has enviado”.

43Cuando hubo hablado así, clamó a gran voz: “¡Lázaro, ven fuera!”

44Y el muerto salió, ligados los brazos y las piernas con vendas, y el rostro envuelto en un sudario. Jesús les dijo: “Desatadlo, y dejadlo ir”.

45Muchos judíos, que habían venido a casa de María, viendo lo que hizo, creyeron en Él.

46Algunos de entre ellos, sin embargo, se fueron de allí a encontrar a los fariseos, y les dijeron lo que Jesús había hecho.

47Entonces los sumos sacerdotes y los fariseos reunieron un consejo y dijeron: “¿Qué haremos? Porque este hombre hace muchos milagros.

48Si le dejamos continuar, todo el mundo va a creer en Él, y los romanos vendrán y destruirán nuestro Lugar ( santo) y también nuestro pueblo”.

49Pero uno de ellos, Caifás, que era Sumo Sacerdote en aquel año, les dijo: “Vosotros no entendéis nada,

50y no discurrís que os es preferible que un solo hombre muera por todo el pueblo, antes que todo el pueblo perezca”.

51Esto, no lo dijo por sí mismo, sino que, siendo Sumo Sacerdote en aquel año, profetizó que Jesús había de morir por la nación,

52y no por la nación solamente, sino también para congregar en uno a todos los hijos de Dios dispersos.

53Desde aquel día tomaron la resolución de hacerlo morir.

54Por esto Jesús no anduvo más, ostensiblemente, entre los judíos, sino que se fue a la región vecina al desierto, a una ciudad llamada Efraím, y se quedó allí con sus discípulos.

55Estaba próxima la Pascua de los judíos, y muchos de aquella región subieron a Jerusalén antes de la Pascua, para purificarse.

56Y, en el Templo, buscaban a Jesús, y se preguntaban unos a otros: “¿Qué os parece? ¿No vendrá a la fiesta?”

57Entre tanto, los sumos sacerdotes y los fariseos habían impartido órdenes para que quienquiera supiese dónde estaba, lo manifestase, a fin de apoderarse de Él.

1Erat autem quidam languens Lazarus a Bethania, de castello Mariæ et Marthæ sororis ejus.

2(Maria autem erat quæ unxit Dominum unguento, et extersit pedes ejus capillis suis: cujus frater Lazarus infirmabatur.)

3Miserunt ergo sorores ejus ad eum dicentes: Domine, ecce quem amas infirmatur.

4Audiens autem Jesus dixit eis: Infirmitas hæc non est ad mortem, sed pro gloria Dei, ut glorificetur Filius Dei per eam.

5Diligebat autem Jesus Martham, et sororem ejus Mariam, et Lazarum.

6Ut ergo audivit quia infirmabatur, tunc quidem mansit in eodem loco duobus diebus;

7deinde post hæc dixit discipulis suis: Eamus in Judæam iterum.

8Dicunt ei discipuli: Rabbi, nunc quærebant te Judæi lapidare, et iterum vadis illuc?

9Respondit Jesus: Nonne duodecim sunt horæ diei? Si quis ambulaverit in die, non offendit, quia lucem hujus mundi videt:

10si autem ambulaverit in nocte, offendit, quia lux non est in eo.

11Hæc ait, et post hæc dixit eis: Lazarus amicus noster dormit: sed vado ut a somno excitem eum.

12Dixerunt ergo discipuli ejus: Domine, si dormit, salvus erit.

13Dixerat autem Jesus de morte ejus: illi autem putaverunt quia de dormitione somni diceret.

14Tunc ergo Jesus dixit eis manifeste: Lazarus mortuus est:

15et gaudeo propter vos, ut credatis, quoniam non eram ibi, sed eamus ad eum.

16Dixit ergo Thomas, qui dicitur Didymus, ad condiscipulos: Eamus et nos, ut moriamur cum eo.

17Venit itaque Jesus: et invenit eum quatuor dies jam in monumento habentem.

18(Erat autem Bethania juxta Jerosolymam quasi stadiis quindecim.)

19Multi autem ex Judæis venerant ad Martham et Mariam, ut consolarentur eas de fratre suo.

20Martha ergo ut audivit quia Jesus venit, occurrit illi: Maria autem domi sedebat.

21Dixit ergo Martha ad Jesum: Domine, si fuisses hic, frater meus non fuisset mortuus:

22sed et nunc scio quia quæcumque poposceris a Deo, dabit tibi Deus.

23Dicit illi Jesus: Resurget frater tuus.

24Dicit ei Martha: Scio quia resurget in resurrectione in novissimo die.

25Dixit ei Jesus: Ego sum resurrectio et vita: qui credit in me, etiam si mortuus fuerit, vivet:

26et omnis qui vivit et credit in me, non morietur in æternum. Credis hoc?

27Ait illi: Utique Domine, ego credidi quia tu es Christus, Filius Dei vivi, qui in hunc mundum venisti.

28Et cum hæc dixisset, abiit, et vocavit Mariam sororem suam silentio, dicens: Magister adest, et vocat te.

29Illa ut audivit, surgit cito, et venit ad eum;

30nondum enim venerat Jesus in castellum: sed erat adhuc in illo loco, ubi occurrerat ei Martha.

31Judæi ergo, qui erant cum ea in domo, et consolabantur eam, cum vidissent Mariam quia cito surrexit, et exiit, secuti sunt eam dicentes: Quia vadit ad monumentum, ut ploret ibi.

32Maria ergo, cum venisset ubi erat Jesus, videns eum, cecidit ad pedes ejus, et dicit ei: Domine, si fuisses hic, non esset mortuus frater meus.

33Jesus ergo, ut vidit eam plorantem, et Judæos, qui venerant cum ea, plorantes, infremuit spiritu, et turbavit seipsum,

34et dixit: Ubi posuistis eum? Dicunt ei: Domine, veni, et vide.

35Et lacrimatus est Jesus.

36Dixerunt ergo Judæi: Ecce quomodo amabat eum.

37Quidam autem ex ipsis dixerunt: Non poterat hic, qui aperuit oculos cæci nati, facere ut hic non moreretur?

38Jesus ergo rursum fremens in semetipso, venit ad monumentum. Erat autem spelunca, et lapis superpositus erat ei.

39Ait Jesus: Tollite lapidem. Dicit ei Martha, soror ejus qui mortuus fuerat: Domine, jam fœtet, quatriduanus est enim.

40Dicit ei Jesus: Nonne dixi tibi quoniam si credideris, videbis gloriam Dei?

41Tulerunt ergo lapidem: Jesus autem, elevatis sursum oculis, dixit: Pater, gratias ago tibi quoniam audisti me.

42Ego autem sciebam quia semper me audis, sed propter populum qui circumstat, dixi: ut credant quia tu me misisti.

43Hæc cum dixisset, voce magna clamavit: Lazare, veni foras.

44Et statim prodiit qui fuerat mortuus, ligatus pedes, et manus institis, et facies illius sudario erat ligata. Dixit eis Jesus: Solvite eum et sinite abire.

45Multi ergo ex Judæis, qui venerant ad Mariam, et Martham, et viderant quæ fecit Jesus, crediderunt in eum.

46Quidam autem ex ipsis abierunt ad pharisæos, et dixerunt eis quæ fecit Jesus.

47Collegerunt ergo pontifices et pharisæi concilium, et dicebant: Quid faciamus, quia hic homo multa signa facit?

48Si dimittimus eum sic, omnes credent in eum, et venient Romani, et tollent nostrum locum, et gentem.

49Unus autem ex ipsis, Caiphas nomine, cum esset pontifex anni illius, dixit eis: Vos nescitis quidquam,

50nec cogitatis quia expedit vobis ut unus moriatur homo pro populo, et non tota gens pereat.

51Hoc autem a semetipso non dixit: sed cum esset pontifex anni illius, prophetavit, quod Jesus moriturus erat pro gente,

52et non tantum pro gente, sed ut filios Dei, qui erant dispersi, congregaret in unum.

53Ab illo ergo die cogitaverunt ut interficerent eum.

54Jesus ergo jam non in palam ambulabat apud Judæos, sed abiit in regionem juxta desertum, in civitatem quæ dicitur Ephrem, et ibi morabatur cum discipulis suis.

55Proximum autem erat Pascha Judæorum, et ascenderunt multi Jerosolymam de regione ante Pascha, ut sanctificarent seipsos.

56Quærebant ergo Jesum, et colloquebantur ad invicem, in templo stantes: Quid putatis, quia non venit ad diem festum? Dederant autem pontifices et pharisæi mandatum ut si quis cognoverit ubi sit, indicet, ut apprehendant eum.

1Now there was a certain man sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, of the town of Mary and Martha her sister.

2(And Mary was she that anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair: whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

3His sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

4And Jesus hearing it, said to them: This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by it.

5Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister Mary, and Lazarus.

6When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he still remained in the same place two days.

7Then after that, he said to his disciples: Let us go into Judea again.

8The disciples say to him: Rabbi, the Jews but now sought to stone thee: and goest thou thither again?

9Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours of the day? If a man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world:

10But if he walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.

11These things he said; and after that he said to them: Lazarus our friend sleepeth; but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.

12His disciples therefore said: Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.

13But Jesus spoke of his death; and they thought that he spoke of the repose of sleep.

14Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead.

15And I am glad, for your sakes, that I was not there, that you may believe: but let us go to him.

16Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples: Let us also go, that we may die with him.

17Jesus therefore came, and found that he had been four days already in the grave.

18(Now Bethania was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off.)

19And many of the Jews were come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

20Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that Jesus had come, went to meet him: but Mary sat at home.

21Martha therefore said to Jesus: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

22But now also I know that whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.

23Jesus saith to her: Thy brother shall rise again.

24Martha saith to him: I know that he shall rise again, in the resurrection at the last day.

25Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live:

26And every one that liveth, and believeth in me, shall not die for ever. Believest thou this?

27She saith to him: Yea, Lord, I have believed that thou art Christ the Son of the living God, who art come into this world.

28And when she had said these things, she went, and called her sister Mary secretly, saying: The master is come, and calleth for thee.

29She, as soon as she heard this, riseth quickly, and cometh to him.

30For Jesus was not yet come into the town: but he was still in that place where Martha had met him.

31The Jews therefore, who were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary that she rose up speedily and went out, followed her, saying: She goeth to the grave to weep there.

32When Mary therefore was come where Jesus was, seeing him, she fell down at his feet, and saith to him: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

33Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews that were come with her, weeping, groaned in the spirit, and troubled himself,

34And said: Where have you laid him? They say to him: Lord, come and see.

35And Jesus wept.

36The Jews therefore said: Behold how he loved him.

37But some of them said: Could not he that opened the eyes of the man born blind, have caused that this man should not die?

38Jesus therefore again groaning in himself, cometh to the sepulchre. Now it was a cave; and a stone was laid over it.

39Jesus saith: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith to him: Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he is now of four days.

40Jesus saith to her: Did not I say to thee, that if thou believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?

41They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifting up his eyes said: Father, I give thee thanks that thou hast heard me.

42And I knew that thou hearest me always; but because of the people who stand about have I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

43When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth.

44And presently he that had been dead came forth, bound feet and hands with winding bands; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus said to them: Loose him, and let him go.

45Many therefore of the Jews, who were come to Mary and Martha, and had seen the things that Jesus did, believed in him.

46But some of them went to the Pharisees, and told them the things that Jesus had done.

47The chief priests therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered a council, and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles?

48If we let him alone so, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and take away our place and nation.

49But one of them, named Caiphas, being the high priest that year, said to them: You know nothing.

50Neither do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

51And this he spoke not of himself: but being the high priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation.

52And not only for the nation, but to gather together in one the children of God, that were dispersed.

53From that day therefore they devised to put him to death.

54Wherefore Jesus walked no more openly among the Jews; but he went into a country near the desert, unto a city that is called Ephrem, and there he abode with his disciples.

55And the pasch of the Jews was at hand; and many from the country went up to Jerusalem, before the pasch to purify themselves.

56They sought therefore for Jesus; and they discoursed one with another, standing in the temple: What think you that he is not come to the festival day?

57And the chief priests and Pharisees had given a commandment, that if any man knew where he was, he should tell, that they might apprehend him.