John 11:38–53

The Seventh Sign: Raising Lazarus from the Dead

³⁸Then Jesus, angry ^yin Himself again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. ^z39“Remove the stone,” Jesus said.

Martha, the dead man’s sister, told Him, “Lord, he’s already decaying. ^aIt’s been four days.”

⁴⁰Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed you would see the glory ^bof God?” ^c

⁴¹So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes and said, “Father, I thank ^dYou that You heard Me. ^e42I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so they may believe You sent ^fMe.” ⁴³After He said this, He shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” ⁴⁴The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him and let him go.”

The Plot to Kill Jesus

⁴⁵Therefore, many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what He did believed in Him. ^g46But some of them went to the Pharisees ^hand told them what Jesus had done.

⁴⁷So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin ⁱand said, “What are we going to do since this man does many signs? ⁴⁸If we let Him continue in this way, everyone will believe in Him! Then the Romans ^jwill come and remove both our place ^kand our nation.”

⁴⁹One of them, Caiaphas, ^lwho was high priest ^mthat year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! ⁵⁰You’re not considering that it is to your ⁿadvantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.” ^o51He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die ^pfor the nation, ⁵²and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children ^qof God. ⁵³So from that day on they plotted to kill Him. ^r