And he went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was at the first baptizing; and there be abode.

Many came to Him, and they were saying, “John did not perform a single sign (attesting miracle), but everything John said about this Man was true and accurate.”

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

(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

But when Jesus heard this, He said, "This illness will not result in [his] death, but was intended to bring honor to God, so that the Son of God would be honored by it."

And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,

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

he still remained where he was for two days; then after that he said to his disciples, "Let us go back again to Judea."

"Rabbi," answered his disciples, "it was but just now that the Jews were trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"

(Now Jesus had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about {real sleep}.)

Then said Jesus to them plainly, Lazarus is dead. And I am glad for your sake I was not there, that ye may believe:

And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.

Then Thomas, who was called Didymus (the twin), said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go too, that we may die with Him.”

When Jesus was arriv'd, he found that Lazarus had been then four days in the grave.

Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:

Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.

She said to Him, “Yes, Lord; I have believed and continue to believe that You are the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), the Son of God, He who was [destined and promised] to come into the world [and it is for You that the world has waited].”

And, she, when she heard, was roused up quickly, and was coming unto him.

Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.

The Jews then who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going unto the tomb to weep there.

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 died.

When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

though deeply troubled, asked them, "Where have you laid him?" "Master, come and see," was their reply.

And Jesus himself was weeping.

The Jews, therefore, said, 'Lo, how he was loving him!'

But some of them said, Could not this man, who opened the eyes of him that was blind, have caused that this man also should not die?

Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.

Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.

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 that thou hast heard me.

I was certain that your ears are at all times open to me, but I said it because of these who are here, so that they may see that you sent me.

And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

So, the leading priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council [Note: This was the Jewish governing body called "the Sanhedrin"] and said, "What should we do, for this man is performing many [miraculous] signs?

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year [the year of Christ’s crucifixion], said to them, “You know nothing at all!

But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;

So from that day their plan was to kill him.

Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples.

And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment, that, if any man knew where he was, he should show it, that they might take him.

Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.

Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

One of his disciples therefore, Judas son of Simon, Iscariote, who was about to deliver him up, says,

Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

So Jesus said, “Let her alone, so that she may keep [the rest of] it for the day of My burial.

Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

Now there was talk among the chief priests of putting Lazarus to death;

because he was the reason many of the Jews were deserting them and believing in Jesus.

On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, Took branches of palm-trees, and went out to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, the king of Israel.

And Jesus got a young ass and sat thereon, according to that which was written,

These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.

The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.

For this reason the crowd went to meet Him, because they heard that He had performed this [miraculous] sign.

The result was that the Pharisees said among themselves, "Observe how idle all your efforts are! The world is gone after him!"

And there was certain Greeks of those having come up that they might worship at the feast:

The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.

His answer was, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

In most solemn truth I tell you that unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains what it was--a single grain; but that if it dies, it yields a rich harvest.

“Now My soul is troubled and deeply distressed; what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour [of trial and agony]’? But it is for this [very] purpose that I have come to this hour [this time and place].

The crowd standing there heard it and said it was thunder. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him.

Jesus responded and said, This voice was not on account of me, but on account of you.

But this he said signifying by what death he was about to die.

while ye have the light, believe in the light, that sons of light ye may become.' These things spake Jesus, and having gone away, he was hid from them,

that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said, 'Lord, who gave credence to our report? and the arm of the Lord -- to whom was it revealed?'

This was why they could not believe; for Isaiah again said,

Isaiah had said these things because he saw the [coming] glory of Jesus, and [so] was speaking about Him.

For the praise of men was dearer to them than the approval of God.

for I have not spoken of my own accord ??the Father who sent me, he it was who ordered me what to say and what to speak.

Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

It was during supper, when the devil had already put [the thought of] betraying Jesus into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son,

Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;

and was now going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his upper garments, and took a towel and girded himself.

After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.

Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet?

Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.

Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, [in that case, wash] not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!”

Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.

For He knew who was going to betray Him; for that reason He said, “Not all of you are clean.”

So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?

If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.

The disciples began looking at one another, uncertain about whom he was speaking.

Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.

So Simon Peter motioned to him (John) and [quietly] asked [him to ask Jesus] of whom He was speaking.

He leaning back, as he was, on Jesus breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it?

This was the answer Jesus gave: It is the one to whom I will give this bit of bread after I have put it in the vessel. Then he took the bit of bread, put it into the vessel, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

And after the morsel was given, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him: What you do, do quickly.

Now it was not clear to anyone at table why he said this to him.

for some supposed, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus was saying to him, Buy the things of which we have need for the feast; or that he should give something to the poor.

He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.

Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.

if God was glorified in him, God also will glorify him in Himself; yea, immediately He will glorify him.

In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?

[Then] Judas (not the betrayer) [Note: This was the son of James, See Luke 6:16. He is also called Thaddaeus, See Matt. 10:3], said to Jesus, "Lord, what has happened [i.e., to your original plans to be seen by everyone when you came. See Luke 21:27], that you will reveal yourself to us apostles [only] and not to the [whole] world?"

You heard me say that I was going away and would return to you. Had you loved me, you would have been glad that I was going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned;

'In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.

It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that should remain, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask in my Name.

I command you to do these things so that you will [demonstrate your] love for one another. [Note: Or this may mean that His command was to love one another, as in verse 12].