¹Kwaiva neumwe wairwara, wainzi Razaro weBhetaniya, mumusha waMaria nemukoma wake Marita.

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

²Waiva iye Maria wakazodza Ishe nemafuta, akapusika tsoka dzake nevhudzi rake, hanzvadzi yake Razaro wakange achirwara.

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

³Naizvozvo hanzvadzi dzakatumira kwaari dzichiti: Ishe, tarirai uyo wamunoda unorwara.

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

⁴Jesu wakati anzwa akati: Ukosha uhwu hahwusviki murufu, asi ndehwembiri yaMwari, kuti Mwanakomana waMwari arumbidzwe nahwo.

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.`

⁵Zvino Jesu wakange achida Marita nemunin'ina wake naRazaro.

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

⁶Naizvozvo wakati anzwa kuti unorwara, ipapo akagara amwe mazuva maviri panzvimbo paakange ari.

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

⁷Shure kweizvozvo wakati kuvadzidzi: Hendeizve Judhiya.

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

⁸Vadzidzi vakati kwaari: Rabhi*, vaJudha vachangobva kutsvaka kukutakai nemabwe; zvino moendazve ikoko here?

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

⁹Jesu akapindura akati: Hapana maora gumi nemaviri masikati here? Kana munhu achifamba masikati, haagumburwi, nekuti unoona chiedza chenyika ino.

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;

¹⁰Asi kana munhu achifamba usiku, unogumburwa, nekuti hamuna chiedza maari.

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

¹¹Wakataura zvinhu izvi, shure kweizvozvo ndokuti kwavari: Shamwari yedu Razaro yarara; asi ndinoenda kuti ndimumutse.

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;`

¹²Naizvozvo vadzidzi vake vakati: Ishe, kana arere, uchanaya.

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

¹³Asi Jesu wakareva zverufu rwake; asi ivo vakafunga kuti unoreva kuzorora kwehope.

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

¹⁴Naizvozvo ipapo Jesu akavaudza pachena: Razaro wafa.

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

¹⁵Zvino ndinofara nekuda kwenyu kuti ndakange ndisipo, kuti mugotenda; asi hendei kwaari.

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

¹⁶Naizvozvo Tomasi, wainzi Dhidhimo, wakati kuna vamwe vadzidzi pamwe naye: Hendei isuwo kuti tinofa naye.

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

¹⁷Zvino Jesu wakati achisvika, akawana atova muguva mazuva mana.

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

¹⁸Zvino Bhetaniya rakange riri pedo neJerusarema, masitadhiya* anenge gumi nemashanu kubva ipapo;

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

¹⁹nevazhinji vevaJudha vakange vauya kuna Marita naMaria, kuti vavanyaradze pamusoro pehanzvadzi yavo.

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

²⁰Zvino Marita wakati angonzwa kuti Jesu wouya, akaenda kunomuchingamidza; asi Maria wakagara mumba.

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

²¹Marita ndokuti kuna Jesu: Ishe, dai maiva pano, hanzvadzi yangu ingadai isina kufa.

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

²²Asi naikozvino ndinoziva kuti zvipi zvazvo zvamunokumbira kuna Mwari, Mwari uchakupai.

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

²³Jesu akati kwaari: Hanzvadzi yako ichamukazve.

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

²⁴Marita akati kwaari: Ndinoziva kuti uchamukazve pakumuka nezuva rekupedzisira.

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

²⁵Jesu akati kwaari: Ndini kumuka neupenyu; unotenda kwandiri, kunyange akafa, uchararama;

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;

²⁶uye umwe neumwe unorarama uye unotenda kwandiri, haangatongofi nekusingaperi. Unotenda izvi here?

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

²⁷Akati kwaari: Hongu, Ishe; ini ndinotenda kuti ndimwi Kristu, Mwanakomana waMwari, waizouya panyika.

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.`

²⁸Zvino wakati areva izvi akaenda, akanodana Maria munin'ina wake pachivande, akati: Mudzidzisi wasvika, unokudana.

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

²⁹Iye wakati achingozvinzwa, akakurumidza kusimuka akaenda kwaari.

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

³⁰Zvino Jesu wakange asati asvika pamusha, asi wakange achiri panzvimbo Marita paakamuchingamidza.

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

³¹Naizvozvo vaJudha vakange vanaye mumba vachimunyaradza, vakati vachiona Maria kuti wakasimuka nekukurumidza achibuda, vakamutevera vachiti: Unoenda kuguva kuti acheme.

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.`

³²Zvino Maria, wakati achisvika pakange pana Jesu, achimuona, akawira patsoka dzake, achiti kwaari: Ishe, dai maiva pano, hanzvadzi yangu ingadai isina kufa.

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;`

³³Naizvozvo Jesu wakati achimuona achichema, vaJudhawo vachichema vakange vauya naye, akagomera mumweya, akazvitambudza,

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,

³⁴akati: Mamuradzikepi? Vakati kwaari: Ishe, uyai muone.

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

³⁵Jesu akachema misodzi.

³⁵Jesus wept.

³⁶Zvino vaJudha vakati: Tarirai kuti waimuda sei.

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

³⁷Asi vamwe vavo vakati: Uyu wakasvinudza meso ebofu, haagoni kuita here kuti uyuwo asafa?

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?`

³⁸Naizvozvo Jesu wakagomerazve mukati make asvika paguva. Zvino raiva bako, nebwe rakange rakaradzikwa pamusoro paro.

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

³⁹Jesu akati: Bvisai ibwe. Marita hanzvadzi yewakafa akati kwaari: Ishe, wotonhuhwa; nekuti une mazuva mana.

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;`

⁴⁰Jesu akati kwaari: Handina kutaura here kwauri, kuti kana ukatenda, uchaona kubwinya kwaMwari?

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

⁴¹Naizvozvo vakabvisa ibwe, pakange paradzikwa wakafa. Jesu ndokusimudzira meso kumusoro, ndokuti: Baba, ndinokuvongai nekuti imwi mandinzwa.

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;

⁴²Asi ini ndanga ndichiziva kuti munondinzwa nguva dzose; asi nekuda kwechaunga chakakomberedza ndareva, kuti vatende kuti imwi makandituma.

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.`

⁴³Zvino wakati areva izvozvi, akadanidzira nenzwi guru, akati: Razaro, buda!

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

⁴⁴Uyo wakange afa ndokubuda, akasungwa makumbo nemaoko nemicheka yeguva, nechiso chake chakapombwa nemucheka wekumeso. Jesu akati kwavari: Musunungurei, mumurege aende.

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.`

⁴⁵Naizvozvo vazhinji vevaJudha, vakange vauya kuna Maria vakati vaona Jesu zvaakaita, vakatenda kwaari.

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

⁴⁶Asi vamwe vavo vakaenda kuvaFarisi, ndokuvaudza zvinhu Jesu zvaakange aita.

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

⁴⁷Naizvozvo vapristi vakuru nevaFarisi vakaunganidza dare remakurukota, vakati: Todini? Nekuti uyu munhu unoita zviratidzo zvizhinji.

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

⁴⁸Kana tikamurega akadaro, vose vachatenda kwaari; nevaRoma vachauya vakatora zviri zviviri nzvimbo nerudzi rwedu.

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.`

⁴⁹Asi umwe wavo, Kayafasi, wakange ari mupristi mukuru gore iroro, akati kwavari: Hamuzivi chinhu imwi,

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

⁵⁰uye hamurangariri kuti zvakatinakira kuti munhu umwe afire vanhu, uye rudzi rwose rurege kuparara.

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

⁵¹Asi haana kureva izvi pachake, asi zvaakange ari mupristi mukuru gore iro, wakaporofita kuti Jesu waizofira rudzi urwo,

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,

⁵²uye kwete rudzi urwo rwoga, asi kutiwo aunganidze vana vaMwari vakapararira vave umwe.

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

⁵³Zvino kubva pazuva iro vakarangana kuti vamuuraye.

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

⁵⁴Naizvozvo Jesu haana kuzombofamba pachena pakati pevaJudha, asi wakabvapo akaenda kunyika iri pedo nerenje, kuguta rainzi Efuremu, ndokugarako nevadzidzi vake.

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.

⁵⁵Zvino pasika yevaJudha yakange yaswedera; vazhinji ndokubuda mumaruwa vakakwira kuJerusarema pasika isati yasvika, kuti vazvichenure.

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;

⁵⁶Naizvozvo vakatsvaka Jesu, vakataurirana vamire mutembere, vachiti: Munofungei? Kuti haangatongouyi kumutambo here?

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?`

⁵⁷Zvino vose vapristi vakuru nevaFarisi vakange vapa murairo kuti kana kune unoziva kwaari, azivise, kuti vamubate.

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.