010:031 Again the Jews brought stones with which to stone Him.
010:032 Jesus remonstrated with them. "Many good deeds," He said,
"have I shown you as coming from the Father; for which of them
are you going to stone me?"
010:033 "For no good deed," the Jews replied, "are we going to stone you,
but for blasphemy, and because you, who are only a man,
are making yourself out to be God."
010:034 "Does it not stand written in your Law," replied Jesus, "`I said,
you are gods'?
010:035 If those to whom God's word was addressed are called gods
(and the Scripture cannot be annulled),
010:036 how is it that you say to one whom the Father consecrated
and sent into the world, `You are blaspheming,' because I said,
`I am God's Son'?
010:037 If the deeds I do are not my Father's deeds, do not believe me.
010:038 But if they are, then even if you do not believe me,
at least believe the deeds, that you may know and see clearly
that the Father is in me, and that I am in the Father."
010:039 This made them once more try to arrest Him, but He withdrew
out of their power.
010:040 Then He went away again to the other side of the Jordan,
to the place where John had been baptizing at first;
and there He stayed.
010:041 Large numbers of people also came to Him. Their report was,
"John did not work any miracle, but all that John said about
this Teacher was true."
010:042 And many became believers in Him there.
011:001 Now a certain man, named Lazarus, of Bethany, was lying ill--
Bethany being the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
011:002 (It was the Mary who poured the perfume over the Lord and wiped
His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.)
011:003 So the sisters sent to Him to say, "Master, he whom you hold
dear is ill."
011:004 Jesus received the message and said, "This illness is not
to end in death, but is to promote the glory of God,
in order that the Son of God may be glorified by it."
011:005 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
011:006 When, however, He heard that Lazarus was ill, He still remained
two days in that same place.
011:007 Then, after that, He said to the disciples, "Let us
return to Judaea."
011:008 "Rabbi," exclaimed the disciples, "the Jews have just been trying
to stone you, and do you think of going back there again?"
011:009 "Are there not twelve hours in the day?" replied Jesus.
"If any one walks in the daytime, he does not stumble--
because he sees the light of this world.
011:010 But if a man walks by night, he does stumble, because the light
is not in him."
011:011 He said this, and afterwards He added, "Our friend Lazarus
is sleeping, but I will go and wake him."