And someone was ill, El’azar from Beit-Anyah [near Hierosoluma]1, from the village of Maryam and Martha his sisters. Yet Maryam was the woman having anointed the Mar with myrrh and wiped His feet with her hair, of whose brother El’azar was sick. The sisters then sent out to Him saying, “Mar, see the one for whom you have affection is sick.” Yet having heard, Yeshua said, “This sickness isn’t in the direction of death but for the reputation of the God, so that the Son of the God would be reputed through it.” And Yeshua loved Martha, and her sister, and El’azar. As then He heard “he is sick,” at that time in fact He stayed put in which place He was for two days. Then, with this period of time having passed, 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, “Mar, if he has fallen asleep, he will be rescued from his sickness.” Yet Yeshua had spoken about his death, But those people assumed that he was speaking about the sleep of Hypnos2 [as opposed to the sleep of Thanatos]. At that time then Yeshua said to them openly, “El’azar died, and I rejoice that I wasn’t there for your sake so that you would trust; but we are going to him.” Th’oma, who is said to be a “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 spent four days in the tomb. Yet Beit-Anyah was near Hierosoluma something like fifteen stadia3, and many of the Iudaeans had come to Martha and Maryam so that they would console them about their brother. As then Martha heard that Yeshua is coming she met Him; yet Maryam was sitting in the house. Martha then said to Yeshua, Mar, if You were here, my brother wouldn’t have died; but I also now know that as much as You would ask the God for, the God will give You.” Yeshua says to her, “Your brother will be resurrected.” Martha 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 alive and putting his trust into Me will not die at all into the eon. Do you trust this?” She says to Him, “Yes Mar, I have trusted that You are the Anointed, the Son of the God who is coming into the universe.”
And having said this thing, she went and called Maryam her sister stealthily having said, “The Teacher is present and calls You.” And 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 Martha met Him. The Iudaeans then who are with Maryam in the house and consoling her, having seen that she got up quickly and left, followed her assuming that she was going as far as the tomb so that she might sob there. Maryam then as she came where Yeshua was, having seen Him she fell towards His feet saying to Him, “Mar, 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 pneuma and was Himself upset and said, “Where did you put him?” They say to Him, “Mar, come and see.” Yeshua’s eyes filled with tears. The Iudaeans were then saying, “See how His affection for him.” Yet some of them said, “Couldn’t this person who, having opened the eyes of that blind man, do something 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, Martha, says to Him, “Mar, 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 the God? Then remove the stone.” And Yeshua lifted up His eyes above and said, “Father, I thank You that You heard 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 loud voice, “EL’AZAR, COME 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 soudarion4. Yeshua says to them, “Untie him, and release him to go.”
Many of the Iudaeans then who having come to Maryam and having watched the things He did put their trust into Him; yet some of them came away to the Farishi and told them the things Yeshua did. The High Priests and the Farishi 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 will both take our country and commit genocide upon us!” 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 figure that it works out for you that one human being should die on behalf of the people and the whole people 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 people group, and not just for this people group but so that also the children of the 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 wasteland, into a town being called Efraim5, and there He stayed put with the disciples.
Yet the Paskha of the Iudaeans was near, and many went up into Hierosoluma from the countryside before the Paskha so that they would purify themselves. They then were looking for Yeshua and were speaking with one another standing around in the temple, “What do you think? That He won’t come at all to the festival holiday?” Yet the High Priests and the Farishi had given commands so that if anyone knew where He was it would be disclosed so that they might arrest Him.
1About a fifteen hour walk from where Yeshua was. They would have either arrived long after dark, or taken two travel days to get there and still arrived close to sundown because it was not long after the winter solstice.
2The Greek god of normal sleep.
3A Greek stadion (Latin “stadium”) is about 600 feet. Beit-Anyah (modern al-Eizariya, Israel) is roughly about two miles from Hierosoluma give or take.
4A cloth tied around the face to keep the jaw closed.
5Probably modern Taybeh in Israel’s West Bank, about 9-10 miles northeast of Hierosoluma.
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