John 11:41-53

⁴¹Then they tooke away the stone from the place where the dead was layde. And Iesus lift vp his eyes, and saide, Father, I thanke thee, because thou hast heard me.

⁴²I knowe that thou hearest me alwayes, but because of the people that stand by, I said it, that they may beleeue, that thou hast sent me.

⁴³As hee had spoken these things, hee cried with a loude voyce, Lazarus, come foorth.

⁴⁴Then he that was dead, came forth, bound hande and foote with bandes, and his face was bound with a napkin. Iesus said vnto them, Loose him, and let him goe.

⁴⁵Then many of the Iewes, which came to Mary, and had seene the thinges, which Iesus did, beleeued in him.

⁴⁶But some of them went their way to the Pharises, and told them what things Iesus had done.

⁴⁷Then gathered the hie Priests, and the Pharises a councill, and said, What shall we doe? For this man doeth many miracles.

⁴⁸If we let him thus alone, all men will beleeue in him, and the Romanes will come and take away both our place, and the nation.

⁴⁹Then one of them named Caiaphas, which was the hie Priest that same yere, said vnto them, Ye perceiue nothing at all,

⁵⁰Nor yet doe you consider that it is expedient for vs, that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

⁵¹This spake hee not of himselfe: but being hie Priest that same yere, he prophecied that Iesus should die for that nation:

⁵²And not for that nation onely, but that he shoulde gather together in one the children of God, which were scattered.

⁵³Then from that day foorth they consulted together, to put him to death.