¹And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister —

¹Mtu mmoja aitwaye Lazaro, mwenyeji wa Bethania, alikuwa mgonjwa. (Kijiji cha Bethania kilikuwa mahali walipokaa Maria na Martha, dada yake.

²and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing —

²Maria ndiye yule aliyempaka Bwana marashi na kumpangusa kwa nywele zake. Lazaro, kaka yake, ndiye aliyekuwa mgonjwa.)

³therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, `Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;`

³Basi, hao dada wakatuma ujumbe huu kwa Yesu: "Bwana, rafiki yako ni mgonjwa!"

⁴and Jesus having heard, said, `This ailment is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.`

⁴Yesu aliposikia hivyo akasema, "Ugonjwa huo hautaleta kifo, ila ni kwa ajili ya kumtukuza Mungu; ameugua ili kwa njia hiyo Mwana wa Mungu atukuzwe."

⁵And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,

⁵Yesu aliwapenda Martha, dada yake na Lazaro.

⁶when, therefore, he heard that he is ailing, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days,

⁶Alipopata habari kwamba Lazaro ni mgonjwa, Yesu aliendelea kukaa mahali hapo alipokuwa kwa siku mbili zaidi.

⁷then after this, he saith to the disciples, `We may go to Judea again;`

⁷Kisha akawaambia wanafunzi wake, "Twendeni tena Yudea!"

⁸the disciples say to him, `Rabbi, now were the Jews seeking to stone thee, and again thou dost go thither!`

⁸Wanafunzi wakamwambia, "Mwalimu! Muda mfupi tu umepita tangu Wayahudi walipotaka kukuua kwa mawe, nawe unataka kwenda huko tena?"

⁹Jesus answered, `Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;

⁹Yesu akajibu, "Je, saa za mchana si kumi na mbili? Basi, mtu akitembea mchana hawezi kujikwaa kwa kuwa anauona mwanga wa ulimwengu huu.

¹⁰and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.`

¹⁰Lakini mtu akitembea usiku atajikwaa kwa maana mwanga haumo ndani yake."

¹¹These things he said, and after this he saith to them, `Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;`

¹¹Yesu alipomaliza kusema maneno hayo, akawaambia, "Rafiki yetu Lazaro amelala, lakini mimi nitakwenda kumwamsha."

¹²therefore said his disciples, `Sir, if he hath fallen asleep, he will be saved;`

¹²Wanafunzi wake wakamwambia, "Bwana, ikiwa amelala, basi atapona."

¹³but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh.

¹³Wao walidhani kwamba alikuwa amesema juu ya kulala usingizi, kumbe alikuwa amesema juu ya kifo cha Lazaro.

¹⁴Then, therefore, Jesus said to them freely, `Lazarus hath died;

¹⁴Basi, Yesu akawaambia waziwazi, "Lazaro amekufa;

¹⁵and I rejoice, for your sake, (that ye may believe,) that I was not there; but we may go to him;`

¹⁵Lakini nafurahi kwa ajili yenu kwamba sikuwako huko, ili mpate kuamini. Haya, twendeni kwake."

¹⁶therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, `We may go — we also, that we may die with him,`

¹⁶Thoma (aitwaye Pacha) akawaambia wanafunzi wenzake, "Twendeni nasi tukafe pamoja naye!"

¹⁷Jesus, therefore, having come, found him having been four days already in the tomb.

¹⁷Yesu alipofika huko alikuta Lazaro amekwisha kaa kaburini kwa siku nne.

¹⁸And Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off,

¹⁸Kijiji cha Bethania kilikuwa karibu na Yerusalemu umbali upatao kilomita tatu.

¹⁹and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;

¹⁹Wayahudi wengi walikuwa wamefika kwa Martha na Maria kuwafariji kwa kifo cha kaka yao.

²⁰Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus doth come, met him, and Mary kept sitting in the house.

²⁰Basi, Martha aliposikia kwamba Yesu alikuwa anakuja, akaenda kumlaki; lakini Maria alibaki nyumbani.

²¹Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;

²¹Martha akamwambia Yesu, "Bwana, kama ungalikuwa hapa, kaka yangu hangalikufa!

²²but even now, I have known that whatever thou mayest ask of God, God will give to thee;`

²²Lakini najua kwamba hata sasa chochote utakachomwomba Mungu, atakupa."

²³Jesus saith to her, `Thy brother shall rise again.`

²³Yesu akamwambia, "Kaka yako atafufuka."

²⁴Martha saith to him, `I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;`

²⁴Martha akamjibu, "Najua kwamba atafufuka wakati wa ufufuo, siku ya mwisho."

²⁵Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;

²⁵Yesu akamwambia, "Mimi ndimi ufufuo na uzima. Anayeniamini mimi hata kama anakufa, ataishi:

²⁶and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die — to the age;

²⁶na kila anayeishi na kuniamini, hatakufa kamwe. Je, waamini hayo?"

²⁷believest thou this?` she saith to him, `Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.`

²⁷Martha akamwambia, "Ndiyo Bwana! Naamini kwamba wewe ndiwe Kristo, Mwana wa Mungu, yule ajaye ulimwenguni."

²⁸And these things having said, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, `The Teacher is present, and doth call thee;`

²⁸Baada ya kusema hayo, Martha alikwenda kumwita Maria, dada yake, akamwabia faraghani, "Mwalimu yuko hapa, anakuita."

²⁹she, when she heard, riseth up quickly, and doth come to him;

²⁹Naye aliposikia hivyo, akainuka mara, akamwendea Yesu.

³⁰and Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was in the place where Martha met him;

³⁰Yesu alikuwa hajaingia kijijini, ila alikuwa bado mahali palepale Martha alipomlaki.

³¹the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying — `She doth go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.`

³¹Basi, Wayahudi waliokuwa nyumbani pamoja na Maria wakimfariji walipomwona ameinuka na kutoka nje ghafla, walimfuata. Walidhani alikuwa anakwenda kaburini kuomboleza.

³²Mary, therefore, when she came where Jesus was, having seen him, fell at his feet, saying to him, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;`

³²Basi, Maria alipofika mahali pale Yesu alipokuwa na kumwona, alipiga magoti, akamwabia, "Bwana, kama ungalikuwa hapa, kaka yangu hangalikufa!"

³³Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said,

³³Yesu alipomwona analia, na wale Wayahudi waliokuja pamoja naye wanalia pia, alijawa na huzuni na kufadhaika moyoni.

³⁴`Where have ye laid him?` they say to him, `Sir, come and see;`

³⁴Kisha akawauliza, "Mlimweka wapi?" Wakamwambia, "Bwana, njoo uone."

³⁵Jesus wept.

³⁵Yesu akalia machozi.

³⁶The Jews, therefore, said, `Lo, how he was loving him!`

³⁶Basi, Wayahudi wakasema, "Tazameni jinsi alivyompenda!"

³⁷and certain of them said, `Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?`

³⁷Lakini baadhi yao wakasema, "Je, huyu aliyemfumbua macho yule kipofu, hakuweza kumfanya Lazaro asife?"

³⁸Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it,

³⁸Basi, Yesu akiwa amehuzunika tena moyoni, akafika kaburini. Kaburi lenyewe lilikuwa pango, na lilikuwa limefunikwa kwa jiwe.

³⁹Jesus saith, `Take ye away the stone;` the sister of him who hath died — Martha — saith to him, `Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;`

³⁹Yesu akasema, "Ondoeni hilo jiwe!" Martha, dada yake huyo aliyekufa, akamwambia, "Bwana, amekwishaanza kunuka; amekaa kaburini siku nne!"

⁴⁰Jesus saith to her, `Said I not to thee, that if thou mayest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?`

⁴⁰Yesu akamwambia, "Je, sikukwambia kwamba ukiamini utaona utukufu wa Mungu?"

⁴¹They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, `Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me;

⁴¹Basi, wakaliondoa lile jiwe. Yesu akatazama juu mbinguni, akasema, "Nakushukuru Baba kwa kuwa wewe wanisikiliza.

⁴²and I knew that Thou always dost hear me, but, because of the multitude that is standing by, I said [it], that they may believe that Thou didst send me.`

⁴²Najua kwamba unanisikiliza daima. Lakini nimesema hayo kwa ajili ya watu hawa waliopo hapa ili wapate kuamini kwamba wewe ndiwe uliyenituma."

⁴³And these things saying, with a loud voice he cried out, `Lazarus, come forth;`

⁴³Alipokwisha sema hayo, akaita kwa sauti kubwa: "Lazaro! Toka nje!"

⁴⁴and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his visage with a napkin was bound about; Jesus saith to them, `Loose him, and suffer to go.`

⁴⁴Huyo aliyekuwa amekufa akatoka nje, huku amefungwa sanda miguu na mikono, na uso wake umefunikwa. Yesu akawaambia, "Mfungueni, mkamwache aende zake."

⁴⁵Many, therefore, of the Jews who came unto Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in him;

⁴⁵Basi, Wayahudi wengi waliokuwa wamefika kwa Maria walipoona kitendo hicho alichokifanya Yesu wakamwamini.

⁴⁶but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did;

⁴⁶Lakini baadhi yao walikwenda kwa Mafarisayo wakatoa taarifa ya jambo hilo alilofanya Yesu.

⁴⁷the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?

⁴⁷kwa hiyo makuhani wakuu na Mafarisayo wakafanya kikao cha Baraza kuu, wakasema, "Tufanye nini? Mtu huyu anafanya ishara nyingi mno.

⁴⁸if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.`

⁴⁸Tukimwacha tu watu wote watamwamini, nao Waroma watakuja kuliharibu Hekalu letu na taifa letu!"

⁴⁹and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything,

⁴⁹Hapo, mmoja wao aitwaye Kayafa, ambaye alikuwa Kuhani Mkuu mwaka huo, akawaambia, "Ninyi hamjui kitu!

⁵⁰nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.`

⁵⁰Je, hamwoni kwamba ni afadhali kwenu mtu mmoja afe kwa ajili ya watu, kuliko taifa zima liangamizwe?"

⁵¹And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation,

⁵¹Yeye hakusema hivyo kwa hiari yake mwenyewe, bali kwa vile alikuwa Kuhani Mkuu mwaka huo, alibashiri kwamba Yesu atakufa kwa ajili ya taifa lao;

⁵²and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.

⁵²na wala si kwa ajili yao tu, bali pia apate kuwaleta pamoja watoto wa Mungu waliotawanyika.

⁵³From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him;

⁵³Basi, tangu siku hiyo viongozi wa Wayahudi walifanya mipango ya kumwua Yesu.

⁵⁴Jesus, 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.

⁵⁴Kwa hiyo, Yesu hakutembea tena hadharani kati ya Wayahudi, bali alitoka hapo, akaenda mahali karibu na jangwa, katika mji uitwao Efraimu. Akakaa huko pamoja na wanafunzi wake.

⁵⁵And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;

⁵⁵Sikukuu ya Wayahudi ya Pasaka ilikuwa karibu, na watu wengi walikwenda Yerusalemu ili wajitakase kabla ya sikukuu hiyo.

⁵⁶they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, `What doth appear to you — that he may not come to the feast?`

⁵⁶Basi, wakawa wanamtafuta Yesu; nao walipokusanyika pamoja Hekaluni wakaulizana, "Mwaonaje? Yaonekana kwamba haji kabisa kwenye sikukuu, au sivyo?"

⁵⁷and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew [it], so that they may seize him.

⁵⁷Makuhani wakuu na Mafarisayo walikuwa wametoa amri kwamba mtu akijua mahali aliko Yesu awaarifu kusudi wamtie nguvuni.