Sunday, January 2, 2022

A Fresh Translation of John 11

Yet someone was ill, El’azar from Beit-Anyah, from the village of Mariam and Marta his sister. Yet Mariam was the woman having anointed the Lord with myrrh and wiped His feet with her hair, of whose brother El’azar was ill. The sisters then sent out to Him saying, “Lord, see the one whom you have affection for is ill.” Yet having heard, Yeshua said, “This illness isn’t in the direction of death but on behalf of the reputation of God, so that the Son of God would be reputed through it.” Yet Yeshua loved Marta and her sister and El’azar. As then He heard that he is ill, at that time on the one hand He stayed put in which place He was for two days, then with this He says to the disciples, “We are going into Iudaea again.” The disciples say to Him, “Rabbi, the Iudaeans are currently looking to stone You, and you’re going there again?” Yeshua answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of the day? If someone should walk during the day, he won’t hit his foot against something, because he’s looking at the Light of this universe; yet if someone should walk during the night, he strikes his foot against something, because the Light isn’t within him.” He said these things, and with this He says to them, “El’azar our friend has fallen asleep; but I am going so that I would rouse him out of sleep.” The disciples then said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be rescued from his illness.” Yet Yeshua had spoken about his death, yet those assumed that he is speaking about the sleep of Hypnos (as opposed to the sleep of Thanatos). At that time then Yeshua said to them openly, “El’azar died, and I rejoice because of you so that you would trust, because I wasn’t there; but we are going to him.” Th’oma, which is said “twin,” then said to his co-disciples, “We are going too, so that we should die with him.”

     Having come then, Yeshua found him already having four days in the tomb. Yet Beit-Anyah was near Hierosoluma like from fifteen stadia. And many of the Iudaeans had come to Marta and Mariam so that they would console them about their brother. As the Marta heard that Yeshua is coming she met Him; yet Mariam was sitting in the house. Marta then said to Yeshua, Lord, if You were here, my brother wouldn’t have died; but I also now know that as much as You would ask God for, God will give You.” Yeshua says to her, “Your brother will resurrect.” Marta says to Him, “I know that he will resurrect during the resurrection on the last day.” Yeshua said to her, “I Am Resurrection and Life; The person putting his trust into Me, if he also should die, he will be alive, and every single person living and putting his trust into Me will absolutely not die into the eon. Do you trust this?” She says to Him, “Yes Lord, I have trusted that You are the Christ, the Son of God who is coming into the universe.”

     And having said this thing, she went and called Mariam her sister stealthily having said, “The Teacher is present and calls You.” Yet that one as she heard rose up quickly and started towards Him. And Yeshua hadn’t yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Marta met Him. The Iudaeans then  who are with her in the house and consoling her, having seen Mariam that she stood up quickly and left, followed her assuming that she is going as far as the tomb so that she should sob there. Mariam then as she came where Yeshua was, having seen Him she fell towards His feet saying to Him, “Lord, if You were here, my brother wouldn’t have died!” Yeshua then as He saw her sobbing and those Iudaeans coming together with her sobbing, scolded His spirit and was Himself upset and said, “Where did you put him?” They say to Him, “Lord, come and see.” Yeshua’s eyes watered. The Iudaeans were then saying, “See how He was having affection for him.” Yet some of them said, “Couldn’t this person who, having opened the eyes of the blind, do so that this one wouldn’t have died?”

     Yeshua then again scolding within Himself comes as far as the tomb; yet there was a cave and stone put upon it. Yeshua says, “Remove the stone.” The sister of the one having ended, Marta, says to Him, “Lord, it already smells, because it is the fourth day.” Yeshua says to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you would trust you would see the reputation of God? Remove then the stone.” Yet Yeshua lifted up His eyes above and said, “Father, I thank You that You listened to Me. And I knew that you are always listening to Me, but because of the crowd standing around I said this, so that they would trust that You sent Me out. And having said these things, he shouted with a huge voice, “EL’AZAR, COME HERE OUTSIDE!!!” The guy having died came out, his feet and hands having been bound with mummy wraps and his face was wrapped around with a soudarion. Yeshua says to them, “Untie him, and release him to go.”

     Many of the Iudaeans then who having come to Mariam and having viewed the things He did put their trust into Him; yet some of them came away to the Pharisees and told them the things Yeshua did. The High Priests and the Pharisees then gathered together the Sanhedrin and were saying, “What do we do because this human being is doing many omens? If we let Him go in this way, Everyone will put their trust into Him, and the Romans will come and remove both our place and our ethnic group.” Yet some single person from them, Kayafa, being High Priest that year, said to them, “You people don’t know anything at all, neither do you calculate that it comes together for you so that one human being should die on behalf of the people and the whole ethnic group shouldn’t be destroyed.” Yet this he didn’t say from himself, being High Priest that year he prophesied that Yeshua was about to die on behalf of the ethnic group, and not just for this ethnic group but so that also the children of God who were scattered would be gathered together into one thing. From that day then, they resolved so that they would kill Him.

     Yeshua then was no longer walking openly among the Iudaeans, but came out from there into the country near the desert, into a town being called Efrayim, and there He stayed put with the disciples.

     Yet the Pascha of the Iudaeans was near, and many went up into Hierosoluma from the country before the Pascha so that they would purify themselves. They then were looking for Yeshua and were speaking with one another having stood in the temple, “What do you think? That He absolutely won’t come to the holy day?” Yet the High Priests and the Pharisees had given commands so that if anyone knew where He is it would be disclosed, so that they would arrest Him.

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