MODERN LITERAL VERSION

11:1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, from the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
11:2 And it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
11:3 Therefore the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick.

11:4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not to death, but on behalf of the glory of God, that* the Son of God may be glorified through it.
11:5 Now Jesus loved* Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
11:6 Therefore, when he heard that he was sick, then indeed, he remained in the place where he was for two days.
11:7 Thereafter, after this time, he says to the disciples, We should go into Judea again.

11:8 The disciples say to him, Rabbi, the Jews just now were seeking to stone you, and you are going back there again?

11:9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
11:10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.
11:11 He spoke these things and he says to them after this, Our friend Lazarus has fallen-asleep, but I am going-onward, that* I may wake him.

11:12 Therefore the disciples said to him, Lord, if he has fallen-asleep, he will be cured.

11:13 (Now Jesus had spoken concerning his death, but they thought that he spoke concerning the restfulness of sleep.)
11:14 Then*, Jesus said to them frankly then, Lazarus is dead.
11:15 And I rejoice because of you* that I was not there, in order that* you* may believe, but we should go to him.

11:16 Therefore Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, We should also go, that* we may die with him.

11:17 Therefore when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb for four days already.
11:18 Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, approximately fifteen furlongs off;
11:19 and many from the Jews had come to those around Martha and Mary, that* they may console them concerning their brother.
11:20 Therefore Martha, when she heard that Jesus is coming, met him, but Mary still sat in the house.
11:21 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would have not died.
11:22 But even now I know that, as many things as you may ask of God, God will give you.

11:23 Jesus says to her, Your brother will rise* up again.

11:24 Martha says to him, I know that he will rise* up in the resurrection at the last day.

11:25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even if he dies, he will live;
11:26 and everyone who lives and believes in me may never* die– forever. Do you believe this?

11:27 She says to him, Yes, Lord. I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, he who comes into the world.
11:28 And when she had said these things, she went away and secretly summoned Mary her sister, saying, The Teacher is here and is summoning you.
11:29 When she heard it, she arose quickly and comes to him.
11:30 (Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.)

11:31 Therefore the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she stood up quickly and went out, they followed her, saying, She is going to the tomb that* she may weep there.

11:32 Therefore Mary, when she came where Jesus was and saw him, fell down next to his feet, saying to him, Lord, if you had been there*, my brother would have not died.

11:33 Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who came with her, he sighed in the spirit and was disturbed,
11:34 and said, Where have you* laid him?
They say to him, Lord, come and see.

11:35 Jesus shed-tears.

11:36 Therefore the Jews said, Behold how he loved him!

11:37 But some out of them said, Was this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, not able to also do something in order that this man might not have died?

11:38 Therefore Jesus again, sighing in himself, comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave and a stone lay against it.
11:39 Jesus says, Lift up the stone .
Martha, the sister of him who was dead, says to him, Lord, already the body stinks from decay; for* it is four days old.

11:40 Jesus says to her, Did I not say to you, that, if you believed, you will see the glory of God?
11:41 So they took away the stone where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted his eyes upward and said, Father, I give-thanks to you that you heard me.
11:42 And I knew that you always hear me, but because of the crowd who is standing around I said it, that* they may believe that you did send me.
11:43 And when he had spoken these things, he cried-out with a loud voice, Lazarus, come-here! Come outside!
11:44 And he who had been dead came out, bound hand and foot with burial wrappings, and his vision was bound around with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, Loose him and allow him to go .

11:45 Therefore many out of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him.
11:46 But some out of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.
{Jn 11:47-54; Jerusalem and Ephraim in Judea.}

11:47 Therefore, the high-priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, What are we doing because this man is doing many signs?
11:48 If we allow him to continue so; all men will believe in him. And the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.

11:49 But a certain one out of them, Caiaphas, being the high-priest that year, said to them, You* know nothing,
11:50 nor do you* reason that it is advantageous for us that* one man should die on behalf of the people and not that* the whole nation should perish.
11:51 (Now he said this not from himself, but being high-priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die on behalf of the nation;
11:52 and not only on behalf of the nation, but that* he should also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.)
11:53 So from that day forth, they counseled together that* they might kill him.

11:54 Therefore, Jesus walked no more publicly among the Jews, but went away from there into the country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and he stayed there with his disciples.
{Jn 11:55-12:1, 9-11 Bethany March 31- April 1, 30 AD.}

11:55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover, that* they might purify themselves.
11:56 Therefore, they sought Jesus and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, What are you* thinking? He may never* come to the feast, or will he?
11:57 Now both the high-priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that*, if anyone knows where he was, he should divulge it, *that they might arrest him. {Week of the Crucifixion.}