John 11:41-53

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.