John 11:32-55

³²Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was, as soon as she saw him fell down at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

³³Jesus therefore when he saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who came with her, was greatly moved in his spirit, and much troubled,

³⁴and said, Where have ye laid him? They say to him, Lord, come and see.

³⁵Jesus wept.

³⁶The Jews therefore said, See, how he loved him!

³⁷But some of them said, Could not he, who opened the eyes of the blind man, have also caused that this man should not have died?

³⁸Jesus therefore, again greatly moved within himself, cometh to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

³⁹Jesus saith, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith to him, Lord, by this time the body is offensive; for he hath been dead four days.

⁴⁰Jesus saith to her, Did I not tell thee, that if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory of God?

⁴¹They therefore took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father! I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

⁴²Yet I knew that thou hearest me always; but for the sake of the multitude standing around I said it, that they might believe that thou didst send me.

⁴³And having thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth!

⁴⁴He that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith to them, Loose him, and let him go.

⁴⁵Many of the Jews therefore who had come to Mary, and had seen what he did, believed in him.

⁴⁶But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus had done.

⁴⁷Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What are we to do, seeing that this man worketh many signs?

⁴⁸If we thus let him alone, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and take away both our place and nation.

⁴⁹And a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high-priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing at all;

⁵⁰nor do ye consider that it is expedient for us that one man die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.

⁵¹And this he spoke not from himself; but being high-priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation;

⁵²and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together in one body the children of God that are scattered abroad.

⁵³Therefore from that day forth they consulted together to put him to death.

⁵⁴Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but departed thence to the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there abode with the disciples.

⁵⁵And the passover of the Jews was at hand; and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.