JOHN 11:41-53

⁴¹So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou heardest me.

⁴²And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the multitude which standeth around I said it, that they may believe that thou didst send me.

⁴³And when he had 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 unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

⁴⁵Many therefore of the Jews, which came to Mary and beheld that which he did, believed on him.

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

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

⁴⁸If we let him thus alone, all men 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 unto them, Ye know nothing at all,

⁵⁰nor do ye take account that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

⁵¹Now this he said not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation;

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

⁵³So from that day forth they took counsel that they might put him to death.