therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, `Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;'
And He saith, `Take, I pray thee, thy son, thine only one, whom thou hast loved, even Isaac, and go for thyself unto the land of Moriah, and cause him to ascend there for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains of which I speak unto thee.'
For the holy ones who `are' in the land, And the honourable, all my delight `is' in them.
And the Lord having seen her, was moved with compassion towards her, and said to her, `Be not weeping;'
And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister --
These 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;'
and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing --
Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;
The Jews, therefore, said, `Lo, how he was loving him!'
And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,
ye call me, The Teacher and The Lord, and ye say well, for I am;
And there was one of his disciples reclining (at meat) in the bosom of Jesus, whom Jesus was loving;
Erastus did remain in Corinth, and Trophimus I left in Miletus infirm;
`As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;