John 11:32-55

³²Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, upon seeing Him she fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here my brother would not have died!”

³³So when Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled.

³⁴And He said, “Where have you put him?” They say to Him, “Lord, come and see.”

³⁵Jesus wept.

³⁶So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”

³⁷But some of them said, “Couldn't this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have also kept this one from dying?”

³⁸Then, groaning within Himself again, Jesus arrived at the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.

³⁹Jesus says, “Remove the stone!” Martha, the sister of the deceased, says to Him, “Lord, he already stinks; it's been four days!”

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

⁴¹Then they took away the stone from where the deceased was lying. Jesus raised His eyes and said: “Father, I thank You that You heard me.

⁴²I know that You always hear me, but I spoke for the sake of the crowd standing around, so that they may believe that You sent me.”

⁴³Upon saying these things He shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

⁴⁴And out the deceased came! Bound hand and foot with bandages, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus says to them, “Loose him and let him go.”

⁴⁵So many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed into Him.

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

⁴⁷Then the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council and said: “What can we do? Because this man performs many miraculous signs;

⁴⁸if we let him go on like this everybody will believe into him; and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation!”

⁴⁹But one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them: “You know nothing at all!

⁵⁰Nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die on behalf of the people, rather than the whole nation perish!”

⁵¹(Now he did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die on behalf of the nation;

⁵²and not only on behalf of the nation, but also to gather into one all the scattered children of God.)

⁵³So from that day on they really plotted to kill Him.

⁵⁴Therefore Jesus no longer moved about openly among the Jews, but went away from there into the country near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim; and He stayed there with His disciples.

⁵⁵Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many from the country went up to Jerusalem before the Passover in order to purify themselves.