John 11:38–53

Lazarus Is Raised

³⁸Then Jesus, deeply moved within himself again, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying on it. ³⁹Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, “Lord, he is stinking already, because it has been four days.” ⁴⁰Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?” ⁴¹So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his^* eyes above and said, “Father, I give thanks to you that you hear me. ⁴²And I know that you always hear me, but for the sake of the crowd standing around I said it,^* so that they may believe that you sent me.” ⁴³And when he^* had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” ⁴⁴The one who had died came out, his^* feet and his^* hands bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped with a facecloth. Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go.”

The Jewish Leaders Plot to Kill Jesus

⁴⁵Then many of the Jews who had come with Mary and saw the things which he did believed in him. ⁴⁶But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done. ⁴⁷So the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs! ⁴⁸If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place^h and ourⁱ nation.”

⁴⁹But a certain one of them, Caiaphas (who was high priest in that year), said to them, “You do not know anything at all! ⁵⁰Nor do you consider that it is profitable for you that one man should die for the people, and the whole nation not perish.” ⁵¹(Now he did not say this from himself, but being high priest in that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, ⁵²and not for the nation only, but also that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered into one.) ⁵³So from that day they resolved that they should kill him.