📖 约翰福音第11章（简体中文和合本）
1 有一个患病的人，名叫拉撒路，住在伯大尼，就是马利亚和她姐姐马大的村庄。
2 （这马利亚就是那用香膏抹主，又用头发擦他脚的，她的兄弟拉撒路病了。）
3 她姊妹两个就打发人去见耶稣，说：“主啊，你所爱的人病了。”
4 耶稣听见就说：“这病不至于死，乃是为神的荣耀，叫神的儿子因此得荣耀。”
5 耶稣素来爱马大和她妹子并拉撒路。
6 听见拉撒路病了，就在所居之地仍住了两天。
7 然后对门徒说：“我们再往犹太去吧。”
8 门徒说：“拉比，犹太人近来要拿石头打你，你还往那里去吗？”
9 耶稣回答说：“白日不是有十二小时吗？人在白日走路，就不至跌倒，因为看见这世上的光。
10 若在黑夜走路，就必跌倒，因为他没有光。”
11 耶稣说了这话，随后对他们说：“我们的朋友拉撒路睡了，我去叫醒他。”
12 门徒说：“主啊，他若睡了，就必好了。”
13 耶稣这话是指着他死说的，他们却以为是说照常睡了。
14 耶稣就明明地告诉他们说：“拉撒路死了。
15 我没有在那里就欢喜，这是为你们的缘故，好叫你们相信。如今我们可以往他那里去吧。”
16 多马（又称低土马）就对那同作门徒的说：“我们也去和他同死吧！”
17 耶稣到了，就知道拉撒路在坟墓里已经四天了。
18 伯大尼离耶路撒冷不远，约有十五里路。
19 有好些犹太人来看马大和马利亚，要为她们的兄弟安慰她们。
20 马大听见耶稣来了，就出去迎接他，马利亚却仍然坐在家里。
21 马大对耶稣说：“主啊，你若早在这里，我兄弟必不死。
22 就是现在，我也知道你无论向神求什么，神也必赐给你。”
23 耶稣说：“你兄弟必然复活。”
24 马大说：“我知道在末日复活的时候，他必复活。”
25 耶稣对她说：“复活在我，生命也在我。信我的人虽然死了，也必复活；
26 凡活着信我的人必永远不死。你信这话吗？”
27 马大说：“主啊，是的，我信你是基督，是神的儿子，就是那要临到世界的。”
28 马大说了这话，就回去暗暗叫她妹子马利亚，说：“夫子来了，叫你。”
29 马利亚听见了，就急忙起来，到耶稣那里去。
30 那时耶稣还没有进村子，仍在马大迎接他的地方。
31 那同马利亚在家里安慰她的犹太人见她急忙起来出去，就跟着她，以为她要往坟墓那里去哭。
32 马利亚到了耶稣那里，看见他，就俯伏在他脚前，说：“主啊，你若早在这里，我兄弟必不死。”
33 耶稣看见她哭，并看见与她同来的犹太人也哭，就心里悲叹，又甚忧愁，
34 便说：“你们把他安放在哪里？”他们回答说：“请主来看。”
35 耶稣哭了。
36 犹太人就说：“你看他爱这人是何等恳切。”
37 其中有人说：“他既然开了瞎子的眼睛，岂不能叫这人不死吗？”
38 耶稣又心里悲叹，来到坟墓前。那坟墓是个洞，有一块石头挡着。
39 耶稣说：“你们把石头挪开。”那死人的姐姐马大说：“主啊，他现在必是臭了，因为他死了已经四天了。”
40 耶稣说：“我不是对你说过，你若信，就必看见神的荣耀吗？”
41 他们就把石头挪开。耶稣举目望天，说：“父啊，我感谢你，因为你已经听我。
42 我也知道你常听我，但我说这话是为周围站着的众人，叫他们信是你差了我来。”
43 说了这话，就大声呼叫说：“拉撒路，出来！”
44 那死人就出来了，手脚裹着布，脸上包着手巾。耶稣对他们说：“解开，叫他走！”
45 那些来看马利亚的犹太人看见耶稣所做的事，就多有信他的。
46 但其中也有人去见法利赛人，把耶稣所做的事告诉他们。
47 祭司长和法利赛人聚集公会，说：“这人行了许多神迹，我们怎么办呢？
48 若这样由着他，人人都要信他，罗马人也要来夺我们的地土和我们的百姓。”
49 内中有一个人，名叫该亚法，本年作大祭司，对他们说：“你们不知道什么。
50 独不想一个人替百姓死，免得全国灭亡，就是你们的益处。”
51 他这话不是出于自己，是因他本年作大祭司，所以预言耶稣将要替这一国死；
52 也不但替这一国死，并要将神四散的子民都聚集归一。
53 从那日起，他们就商议要杀耶稣。
54 所以耶稣不再显然在犹太人中行走，却从那里往近野的地方去，到一个城，名叫以法莲，就同门徒住在那里。
55 犹太人的逾越节近了。许多人从乡下上耶路撒冷去，要在节前洁净自己。
56 他们就寻找耶稣，站在殿里彼此说：“你们怎么看？他不来过节吗？”
57 那时，祭司长和法利赛人早已吩咐说：“若有人知道耶稣在那里，就要报明，好去拿他。”
📖 John 11 (NIV)
1 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)
3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.”
4 When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.”
5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days,
7 and then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”
8 “But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?”
9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light.
10 It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.”
11 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.”
12 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.”
13 Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.
14 So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,
15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
16 Then Thomas (also known as Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”
17 On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.
18 Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,
19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother.
20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.
21 “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24 Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;
26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
27 “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”
28 After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.”
29 When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.
30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.
31 When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.
32 When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
34 “Where have you laid him?” he asked.
“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
37 But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”
38 Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
39 “Take away the stone,” he said.
“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”
40 Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”
41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
43 When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.
46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. “What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many signs.
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 temple and our nation.”
49 Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, “You know nothing at all!
50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
51 He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation,
52 and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.
53 So from that day on they plotted to take his life.
54 Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea. Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.
55 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover.
56 They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the festival at all?”
57 But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.
✦ 简短总结（中文）
本章记述了耶稣使拉撒路复活。耶稣表明自己是“复活和生命”，信他的人必永远不死。他为马利亚和众人的哭泣而动容，自己也流泪。耶稣呼唤拉撒路复活，显出神的荣耀，使许多人信他。但这神迹也促使祭司长和法利赛人加紧图谋杀害耶稣。
✦ Brief Summary (English)
This chapter recounts Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. He declares, “I am the resurrection and the life; the one who believes in me will live, even though they die.” Jesus weeps with the mourners, then calls Lazarus out of the tomb, revealing God’s glory and leading many to believe. Yet this miracle also intensifies the priests’ and Pharisees’ plot to kill him.
📖 问答式解析（中文）
问：门徒为什么担心耶稣去犹太？
答：因为犹太人刚想用石头打他，他们怕危险。
问：耶稣说“复活在我，生命也在我”是什么意思？
答：他宣告自己就是复活的源头和生命的主宰，信他的人虽然肉体死去，灵魂仍得永生。
问：耶稣为什么哭？
答：他与人同情，为朋友的死感伤，同时也因人不信而忧伤，表现出他真实的人性。
问：拉撒路复活的意义是什么？
答：显出耶稣掌管生死的大能，预表他自己的复活，并使神得荣耀。
问：为什么这一神迹导致犹太领袖谋害耶稣？
答：因为拉撒路复活使众人信耶稣，威胁到他们的地位与政治稳定，所以他们决定要杀耶稣。
📖 Q&A Analysis (English Translation)
Q: Why were the disciples worried about Jesus going to Judea?
A: Because the Jews had just tried to stone him, and they feared for his safety.
Q: What does Jesus mean by “I am the resurrection and the life”?
A: He declares himself the source of resurrection and life. Whoever believes in him will live eternally, even if they die physically.
Q: Why did Jesus weep?
A: He empathized with human sorrow and was moved by the grief of his friends, while also troubled by unbelief—showing his true humanity.
Q: What is the significance of Lazarus being raised?
A: It demonstrates Jesus’ power over life and death, foreshadows his own resurrection, and glorifies God.
Q: Why did this miracle lead the Jewish leaders to plot Jesus’ death?
A: Because it caused many to believe in him, threatening their authority and political order, so they resolved to kill him.
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