John 11:41-53

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

⁴²but I knew that thou always hearest me; but on account of the crowd who stand around I have said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

⁴³And having said this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

⁴⁴And the dead came forth, bound feet and hands with graveclothes, and his face was bound round with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, Loose him and let him go.

⁴⁵Many therefore of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he had done, believed on him;

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

⁴⁷The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many signs.

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

⁴⁹But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing

⁵⁰nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.

⁵¹But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;

⁵²and not for the nation only, but that he should also gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

⁵³From that day therefore they took counsel that they might kill him.