John 11:41-53

⁴¹So they took away the stone. And Jesus, looking up to heaven, said, Father, I give praise to you for hearing me.

⁴²I was certain that your ears are at all times open to me, but I said it because of these who are here, so that they may see that you sent me.

⁴³Then he said in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out!

⁴⁴And he who was dead came out, with linen bands folded tightly about his hands and feet, and a cloth about his face. Jesus said to them, Make him free and let him go.

⁴⁵Then a number of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen the things which Jesus did had belief in him.

⁴⁶But some of them went to the Pharisees with the news of what Jesus had done.

⁴⁷Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs.

⁴⁸If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation.

⁴⁹But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You have no knowledge of anything;

⁵⁰You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction.

⁵¹He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation;

⁵²And not for that nation only, but for the purpose of uniting in one body the children of God all over the world.

⁵³And from that day they took thought together how to put him to death.