⁴⁰Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that you would see God’s glory if you believed?” ⁴¹They took the stone away. Jesus looked up and said, “I thank you, Father, that you listen to me. ⁴²I know that you always listen to me, but I say this for the sake of the people here, so that they will believe that you sent me.” ⁴³After he had said this, he called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” ⁴⁴He came out, his hands and feet wrapped in grave clothes, and with a cloth round his face. “Untie him,” Jesus told them, “and let him go.”

The Plot against Jesus

⁴⁵Many of the people who had come to visit Mary saw what Jesus did, and they believed in him. ⁴⁶But some of them returned to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. ⁴⁷So the Pharisees and the chief priests met with the Council and said, “What shall we do? Look at all the miracles this man is performing! ⁴⁸If we let him go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Roman authorities will take action and destroy our Temple and our nation!”

⁴⁹One of them, named Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said, “What fools you are! ⁵⁰Don’t you realize that it is better for you to let one man die for the people, instead of having the whole nation destroyed?” ⁵¹Actually, he did not say this of his own accord; rather, as he was High Priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish people, ⁵²and not only for them, but also to bring together into one body all the scattered people of God.

⁵³From that day on the Jewish authorities made plans to kill Jesus.

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