Chukat Gospel

Yochanan 11-12
Joh 11:1 There was a man who had fallen sick. His name was El`azar, and he came from Beit-Anyah, the village where Miryam and her sister Marta lived.
Joh 11:2 (This Miryam, whose brother El`azar had become sick, is the one who poured perfume on the Master and wiped his feet with her hair.)
Joh 11:3 So the sisters sent a message to Yahshua, "Adon, the man you love is sick."
Joh 11:4 On hearing it, he said, "This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for Elohim's esteem, so that the Son of Elohim may receive esteem through it."
Joh 11:5 Yahshua loved Marta and her sister and El`azar;
Joh 11:6 so when he heard he was sick, first he stayed where he was two more days;
Joh 11:7 then, after this, he said to the talmidim, "Let's go back to Y'hudah."
Joh 11:8 The talmidim replied, "Rabbi! Just a short while ago the Judeans were out to stone you — and you want to go back there?"
Joh 11:9 Yahshua answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a person walks during daylight, he doesn't stumble; because he sees the light of this world.
Joh 11:10 But if a person walks at night, he does stumble; because he has no light with him."
Joh 11:11 Yahshua said these things, and afterwards he said to the talmidim, "Our friend El`azar has gone to sleep; but I am going in order to wake him up."
Joh 11:12 The talmidim said to him, "Adon, if he has gone to sleep, he will get better."
Joh 11:13 Now Yahshua had used the phrase to speak about El`azar's death, but they thought he had been talking literally about sleep.
Joh 11:14 So Yahshua told them in plain language, "El`azar has died.
Joh 11:15 And for your sakes, I am glad that I wasn't there, so that you may come to trust. But let's go to him."
Joh 11:16 Then T'oma (the name means "twin") said to his fellow talmidim, "Yes, we should go, so that we can die with him!"
Joh 11:17 On arrival, Yahshua found that El`azar had already been in the tomb for four days.
Joh 11:18 Now Beit-Anyah was about two miles from Yerushalayim,
Joh 11:19 and many of the Judeans had come to Marta and Miryam in order to comfort them at the loss of their brother.
Joh 11:20 So when Marta heard that Yahshua was coming, she went out to meet him; but Miryam continued sitting shiv'ah in the house.
Joh 11:21 Marta said to Yahshua, "Adon, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
Joh 11:22 Even now I know that whatever you ask of Elohim, Elohim will give you."
Joh 11:23 Yahshua said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
Joh 11:24 Marta said, "I know that he will rise again at the Resurrection on the Last Day."
Joh 11:25 Yahshua said to her, "I AM the Resurrection and the Life! Whoever puts his trust in me will live, even if he dies;
Joh 11:26 and everyone living and trusting in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
Joh 11:27 She said to him, "Yes, Adon, I believe that you are the Mashiach, the Son of Elohim, the one coming into the world."
Joh 11:28 After saying this, she went off and secretly called Miryam, her sister: "The Rabbi is here and is calling for you."
Joh 11:29 When she heard this, she jumped up and went to him.
Joh 11:30 Yahshua had not yet come into the village but was still where Marta had met him;
Joh 11:31 so when the Judeans who had been with Miryam in the house comforting her saw her get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking she was going to the tomb to mourn there.
Joh 11:32 When Miryam came to where Yahshua was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, "Adon, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."
Joh 11:33 When Yahshua saw her crying, and also the Judeans who came with her crying, he was deeply moved and also troubled.
Joh 11:34 He said, "Where have you buried him?" They said, "Adon, come and see."
Joh 11:35 Yahshua cried;
Joh 11:36 so the Judeans there said, "See how he loved him!"
Joh 11:37 But some of them said, "He opened the blind man's eyes. Couldn't he have kept this one from dying?"
Joh 11:38 Yahshua, again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying in front of the entrance.
Joh 11:39 Yahshua said, "Take the stone away!" Marta, the sister of the dead man, said to Yahshua, "By now his body must smell, for it has been four days since he died!"
Joh 11:40 Yahshua said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you keep trusting, you will see the esteem of Elohim?"
Joh 11:41 So they removed the stone. Yahshua looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
Joh 11:42 I myself know that you always hear me, but I say this because of the crowd standing around, so that they may believe that you have sent me."
Joh 11:43 Having said this, he shouted, "El`azar! Come out!"
Joh 11:44 The man who had been dead came out, his hands and feet wrapped in strips of linen and his face covered with a cloth. Yahshua said to them, "Unwrap him, and let him go!"
Joh 11:45 At this, many of the Judeans who had come to visit Miryam, and had seen what Yahshua had done, trusted in him.
Joh 11:46 But some of them went off to the P'rushim and told them what he had done.
Joh 11:47 So the head kohanim and the P'rushim called a meeting of the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we going to do? — for this man is performing many miracles.
Joh 11:48 If we let him keep going on this way, everyone will trust in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both the Temple and the nation."
Joh 11:49 But one of them, Kayafa, who was kohen gadol that year, said to them, "You people don't know anything!
Joh 11:50 You don't see that it's better for you if one man dies on behalf of the people, so that the whole nation won't be destroyed."
Joh 11:51 Now he didn't speak this way on his own initiative; rather, since he was kohen gadol that year, he was prophesying that Yahshua was about to die on behalf of the nation,
Joh 11:52 and not for the nation alone, but so that he might gather into one the scattered children of Elohim.
Joh 11:53 From that day on, they made plans to have him put to death.
Joh 11:54 Therefore Yahshua no longer walked around openly among the Judeans but went away from there into the region near the desert, to a town called Efrayim, and stayed there with his talmidim.
Joh 11:55 The Judean festival of Pesach was near, and many people went up from the country to Yerushalayim to perform the purification ceremony prior to Pesach.
Joh 11:56 They were looking for Yahshua, and as they stood in the Temple courts they said to each other, "What do you think? that he simply won't come to the festival?"
Joh 11:57 Moreover, the head kohanim and the P'rushim had given orders that anyone knowing Yahshua's whereabouts should inform them, so that they could have him arrested.
Joh 12:1 Six days before Pesach, Yahshua came to Beit-Anyah, where El`azar lived, the man Yahshua had raised from the dead;
Joh 12:2 so they gave a dinner there in his honor. Marta served the meal, and El`azar was among those at the table with him.
Joh 12:3 Miryam took a whole pint of pure oil of spikenard, which is very expensive, poured it on Yahshua's feet and wiped his feet with her hair, so that the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
Joh 12:4 But one of the talmidim, Y'hudah from K'riot, the one who was about to betray him, said,
Joh 12:5 "This perfume is worth a year's wages! Why wasn't it sold and the money given to the poor?"
Joh 12:6 Now he said this not out of concern for the poor, but because he was a thief — he was in charge of the common purse and used to steal from it.
Joh 12:7 Yahshua said, "Leave her alone! She kept this for the day of my burial.
Joh 12:8 You always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."
Joh 12:9 A large crowd of Judeans learned that he was there; and they came not only because of Yahshua, but also so that they could see El`azar, whom he had raised from the dead.
Joh 12:10 The head kohanim then decided to do away with El`azar too,
Joh 12:11 since it was because of him that large numbers of the Judeans were leaving their leaders and putting their trust in Yahshua.
Joh 12:12 The next day, the large crowd that had come for the festival heard that Yahshua was on his way into Yerushalayim.
Joh 12:13 They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, "Deliver us!" "Blessed is he who comes in the name of YHVH, the King of Yisra'el!"
Joh 12:14 After finding a donkey colt, Yahshua mounted it, just as the Tanakh says —
Joh 12:15 "Daughter of Tziyon, don't be afraid! Look! your Melech is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt."
Joh 12:16 His talmidim did not understand this at first; but after Yahshua had been esteemed, then they remembered that the Tanakh said this about him, and that they had done this for him.
Joh 12:17 The group that had been with him when he called El`azar out of the tomb and raised him from the dead had been telling about it.
Joh 12:18 It was because of this too that the crowd came out to meet him — they had heard that he had performed this nes.
Joh 12:19 The P'rushim said to each other, "Look, you're getting nowhere! Why, the whole world has gone after him!"
Joh 12:20 Among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greek-speaking Jews.
Joh 12:21 They approached Philip, the one from Beit-Tzaidah in the Galil, with a request. "Sir," they said, "we would like to see Yahshua."
Joh 12:22 Philip came and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Yahshua.
Joh 12:23 Yahshua gave them this answer: "The time has come for the Son of Man to be esteemed.
Joh 12:24 Yes, indeed! I tell you that unless a grain of wheat that falls to the ground dies, it stays just a grain; but if it dies, it produces a big harvest.
Joh 12:25 He who loves his life loses it, but he who hates his life in this world will keep it safe right on into eternal life!
Joh 12:26 If someone is serving me, let him follow me; wherever I am, my servant will be there too. My Father will honor anyone who serves me.
Joh 12:27 "Now I am in turmoil. What can I say — 'Father, save me from this hour'? No, it was for this very reason that I have come to this hour. I will say this:
Joh 12:28 'Father, esteem your name!' " At this a bat-kol came out of heaven, "I have esteemed it before, and I will esteem it again!"
Joh 12:29 The crowd standing there and hearing it said that it had thundered; others said, "A malachei spoke to him."
Joh 12:30 Yahshua answered, "This bat-kol did not come for my sake but for yours.
Joh 12:31 Now is the time for this world to be judged, now the ruler of this world will be expelled.
Joh 12:32 As for me, when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself."
Joh 12:33 He said this to indicate what kind of death he would die.
Joh 12:34 The crowd answered, "We have learned from the Torah that HaMashiach remains forever. How is it that you say the Son of Man has to be 'lifted up'? Who is this 'Son of Man'?"
Joh 12:35 Yahshua said to them, "The light will be with you only a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, or the dark will overtake you; he who walks in the dark doesn't know where he's going.
Joh 12:36 While you have the light, put your trust in the light, so that you may become people of light." Yahshua said these things, then went off and kept himself hidden from them.
Joh 12:37 Even though he had performed so many nesot in their presence, they still did not put their trust in him,
Joh 12:38 in order that what Yesha`yahu the prophet had said might be fulfilled, "YHVH, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of YHVH been revealed?"
Joh 12:39 The reason they could not believe was — as Yesha`yahu said elsewhere —
Joh 12:40 "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they do not see with their eyes, understand with their hearts, and do t'shuvah, so that I could heal them."
Joh 12:41 (Yesha`yahu said these things because he saw the Sh'khinah of Yahshua and spoke about him.)
Joh 12:42 Nevertheless, many of the leaders did trust in him; but because of the P'rushim they did not say so openly, out of fear of being banned from the synagogue;
Joh 12:43 for they loved praise from other people more than praise from Elohim.
Joh 12:44 Yahshua declared publicly, "Those who put their trust in me are trusting not merely in me, but in the One who sent me.
Joh 12:45 Also those who see me see the One who sent me.
Joh 12:46 I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who trusts in me might not remain in the dark.
Joh 12:47 If anyone hears what I am saying and does not observe it, I don't judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
Joh 12:48 Those who reject me and don't accept what I say have a judge — the word which I have spoken will judge them on the Last Day.
Joh 12:49 For I have not spoken on my own initiative, but the Father who sent me has given me a command, namely, what to say and how to say it.
Joh 12:50 And I know that his command is eternal life. So what I say is simply what the Father has told me to say."