Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
1 A man named Lazarus, who lived in Bethany, became sick. Bethany was the town where Mary and her sister Martha lived.
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Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 (This Mary was the one who poured the perfume on the Lord's feet and wiped them with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was sick.)
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(This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)
3 The sisters sent Jesus a message: "Lord, your dear friend is sick."
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So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.”
4 When Jesus heard it, he said, "The final result of this sickness will not be the death of Lazarus; this has happened in order to bring glory to God, and it will be the means by which the Son of God will receive glory."
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When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.”
5 Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
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Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 Yet when he received the news that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was for two more days.
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So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days,
7 Then he said to the disciples, "Let us go back to Judea."
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and then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”
8 "Teacher," the disciples answered, "just a short time ago the people there wanted to stone you; and are you planning to go back?"
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“But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?”
9 Jesus said, "A day has twelve hours, doesn't it? So those who walk in broad daylight do not stumble, for they see the light of this world.
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Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light.
10 But if they walk during the night they stumble, because they have no light."
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It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.”
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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