John 11:38–53

³⁸So Jesus, again being deeply moved within, came to the tomb. Now it was a ^acave, and a stone was lying against it.

³⁹Jesus said, “Remove the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to Him, “Lord, by this time ¹there will be a stench, for he has been dead ^afour days.”

⁴⁰Jesus said to her, “^aDid I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”

⁴¹So they removed the ^astone. Then Jesus ^braised His eyes, and said, “^cFather, I thank You that You have heard Me.

⁴²“I knew that You always hear Me; but ^abecause of the ¹people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that ^bYou sent Me.”

⁴³When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth.”

⁴⁴The man who had died came forth, ^abound hand and foot with wrappings, and ^bhis face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

^45aTherefore many of the Jews ^bwho came to Mary, and ^csaw what He had done, believed in Him.

⁴⁶But some of them went to the ^aPharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.

Conspiracy to Kill Jesus

⁴⁷Therefore ^athe chief priests and the Pharisees ^bconvened a ^ccouncil, and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many ^1dsigns.

⁴⁸“If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our ^aplace and our nation.”

⁴⁹But one of them, ^aCaiaphas, ^bwho was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,

⁵⁰nor do you take into account that ^ait is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”

⁵¹Now he did not say this ¹on his own initiative, but ^abeing high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

⁵²and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also ^agather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

⁵³So from that day on they ^aplanned together to kill Him.