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The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ,
According To John Chapter 11
1 Christ, to shew that he is,
5 the life and resurrection,
14 cometh to Lazarus being dead,
17, 34 and buried,
43 and raiseth him up.
47 As the Priests were consulting together,
49 Caiaphas
50 prophesieth that one must die for the people.
56, 57 They command to seek Christ out,
and to take him.
1 And (1) a certain man was sick, named
Lazarus of Bethany, the (a) town of Mary,
and her sister Martha.
(1) Christ in restoring the stinking carcass
of his friend to life, sheweth an example both
of his mighty power, and also of his singular
good will toward men; which is also an image
of the resurrection to come.
(a) Where his sisters dwelt.
2 (And it was that (*) Mary which anointed
the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet
with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
(*) John 12:3; Matthew 26:7 .
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 (*) unto (b) death, but for the glory
of God, that the Son of God might be glorified
thereby.
(*) For although he died, yet being restored
so soon to life, it was almost no death in
comparison.
(b) That is to say, sent for the purpose to
kill him.
5 ¶ Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister,
and Lazarus.
6 (2) And after he had heard that he was sick,
yet abode he two days still in the same place
where he was.
(2) In that which God seemeth sometimes
to linger in helping of us, he doth it both
for his glory, and for our salvation, as the
falling out of the matter in the end, plainly
proveth.
7 Then after that, said he to his disciples,
Let us go into Judea again.
8 (3) The disciples said unto him, Master,
the Jews lately sought to (*) stone thee,
and doest thou go thither again?
(3) This only is the sure and right way to life,
to follow God boldly without fear, who
calleth us and shineth before us in the darkness
of this world.
(*) John 7:30; John 8:59; John 10:33 .
9 Jesus answered, Are there not
(c) (*) twelve hours in the day?
If a man walk in the day, he stumbleth not,
because he seeth the light of this world.
(c) All things are fitly wrought and brought
to pass in their season.
(*) He that walketh in his vocation, and
hath the light of God for his guide, needeth
to fear no dangers.
The day also, both summer and winter was
with the Jews divided into twelve hours.
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 (d) sleepeth;
but I go to wake him up.
(d) The Jews used a milder kind of speech,
and called death a sleep, whereupon in
other languages the place of burial where
the dead are laid, waiting for the resurrection,
is called a sleeping place.
12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep,
he (*) shall be safe.
(*) They labored to stay from going into Judea,
as though there had been no need.
13 Howbeit, Jesus spake of his death, but
they thought that he had spoken of the
(*) natural sleep.
(*) Or, slumbering 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 (*) Didymus) unto his fellow
disciples, Let us also go, that we may die
with him.
(*) Which signifieth in our tongue, a twin
in birth.
17 ¶ Then came Jesus, and found that he
had lain in the grave four days already.
18 (Now Bethany was near unto Jerusalem,
about (*) fifteen furlongs off.)
(*) Which were almost two miles.
19 (4) And many of the Jews were come to
Martha and Mary to comfort them for
their brother.
(4) God who is the maker of nature, doth not
condemn natural affections, but sheweth that
they ought to be examined by the rule of faith.
20 Then Martha, when she heard that Jesus
was coming, went to meet him, but Mary
sat still in the house.
21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord,
if thou hadst been here, my brother had
not been dead.
22 But now (*) I know also, that whatsoever
thou askest of God, God will give it thee.
(*) She sheweth some faith, which
notwithstanding was almost overcome
by her affections.
23 Jesus said unto her, Thy brother shall
(e) rise again.
(e) That is, shall recover life again.
24 Martha said unto him, I know that he
shall rise again (*) in the resurrection at
the last day.
(*) John 5:29; Luke 14:14 .
25 Jesus said unto her, () I am the resurrection
and the life; (*) he that believeth in me,
though he were dead yet shall he live.
() Christ restoreth us from death to give us
everlasting life.
(*) John 6:35 .
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 Mary her sister secretly,
saying, The Master is come, and calleth
for thee.
29 And when she heard it, she arose quickly,
and 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, and comforted her, when
they saw Mary, that she rose up
(*) hastily, and went out, followed her,
saying, She goeth unto the grave, to weep
there.
(*) Wherein she declared her affliction
and reverence that she bare to Christ.
32 Then when Mary was come where Jesus
was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet,
saying unto him, Lord if thou hadst been here,
my brother had not been dead.
33 (5) When Jesus therefore saw her weeping,
and the Jews also weeping which came with
her, he (f) (*) groaned in the spirit, and was
troubled in himself,
(5) Christ took upon him together with our
flesh all affections of man (sin only excepted)
and amongst them especially mercy
and compassion.
(f) These are tokens that he was greatly moved,
but yet they were without sin; and these affections
are proper to man's nature.
(*) For compassion; for he felt our miseries,
as though he suffered the like.
34 And said, Where have ye laid him?
They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
35 And Jesus (*) wept.
(*) We read not that his affection were so
excessive that he kept no measure, as we
do in our sorrows, joys and other affections.
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?
(*) John 9:6 .
38 Jesus therefore again groaned in himself,
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 didst believe, thou shouldest see
the (*) glory of God?
(*) That is, a miracle whereby God's Name
should be glorified.
41 Then they took away the stone from
the place where the dead was laid.
And Jesus lifted 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, Loose him,
and let him go.
45 ¶ Then many of the Jews, which came
to Mary, and had seen the things, which
Jesus did, believed in him.
46 (6) But some of them went their way
to the Pharisees, and told them what
things Jesus had done.
(6) The last point of hard and iron like
stubbornness is this, to proclaim open war
against God, and yet ceaseth not to make
a pretence both of godliness and of the profit
of the common nation.
47 Then gathered the high Priests, and the
Pharisees a (g) council, and said,
What shall we do?
For this man doeth many miracles.
(g) The Jews called the council Sanhedrin;
and the word that John useth is Synedri.
48 If (*) we let him thus alone, all men will
believe in him, and the Romans will come
and (h) take away both our place,
and the nation.
(*) They resist God, thinking to hinder his
work by their own policies.
(h) That is, take away from us by force; for
at that time, though the high Priest's authority
was greatly lessened and decayed, yet there
was some kind of government left among
the Jews.
49 (7) Then one of them named Caiaphas,
which was the high Priest (*) that same
year, said unto them, Ye perceive nothing
at all,
(7) The raging and mad company of the false
Church, persuade themselves that they cannot
be in safety, unless he be taken away, who alone
upholdeth the Church; And so likewise judgeth
the wisdom of the flesh in worldly affairs, which
is governed by the spirit of giddiness or madness.
(*) Or, for that present time.
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.
(*) John 18:14 .
51 (8) This spake he not of himself, but being
high Priest that same year, he (*) prophesied
that Jesus should die for the nation,
(8) Christ doeth sometime so turn the tongues,
even of the wicked, that in cursing, they bless.
(*) 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.
52 And not for the nation only, but that
he should gather together in one the children
of God, which (i) were scattered.
(i) For they were not gathered together in
one country, as the Jews were, but to be
gathered from all quarters, from the East to
the West.
53 Then from that day forth they consulted
together, to put him to death.
54 (9) 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.
(9) We may give place to the rage of the
wicked, when it is expedient so to do, but
yet in such sort, that we swerve not from
God's vocation.
55 ¶ And the Jews' Passover was at hand,
and many went out of the country up to
Jerusalem before the Passover, to
(*) purify themselves.
(*) 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.
56 Then sought they for Jesus, and spake
among themselves, as they stood in the
Temple, What think ye, that he cometh not
to the feast?
57 Now both the high Priests and the Pharisees
had given a commandment, that if any man
knew where he were, he should shew it,
that they might take him.
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