John 11:38–53

³⁸Jesus therefore, again deeply moved in himself, comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. ³⁹Jesus says, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead, says to him, Lord, he stinks already, for he is four days there. ⁴⁰Jesus says to her, Did I not say to thee, that if thou shouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? ⁴¹They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifted up his eyes on high and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me; ⁴²but I knew that thou always hearest me; but on account of the crowd who stand around I have said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. ⁴³And having said this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. ⁴⁴And the dead came forth, bound feet and hands with graveclothes, and his face was bound round with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, Loose him and let him go.

⁴⁵Many therefore of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he had done, believed on him; ⁴⁶but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. ⁴⁷The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many signs. ⁴⁸If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation. ⁴⁹But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing ⁵⁰nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish. ⁵¹But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation; ⁵²and not for the nation only, but that he should also gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad. ⁵³From that day therefore they took counsel that they might kill him.