John 11:41-53

⁴¹Therfor thei token awei the stoon. And Jhesus lifte vp hise iyen, and seide, Fadir, Y do thankyngis to thee, for thou hast herd me; and Y wiste,

⁴²that thou euermore herist me, but for the puple that stondith aboute, Y seide, that thei bileue, that thou hast sent me.

⁴³Whanne he hadde seid these thingis, he criede with a greet vois, Lazarus, come thou forth.

⁴⁴And anoon he that was deed, cam out, boundun the hondis and feet with boondis, and his face boundun with a sudarie. And Jhesus seith to hem, Vnbynde ye hym, and suffre ye hym to go forth.

⁴⁵Therfor many of the Jewis that camen to Marie and Martha, and seyn what thingis Jhesus dide, bileueden in hym.

⁴⁶But summe of hem wente to the Farisees, and seiden to hem, what thingis Jhesus `hadde don.

⁴⁷Therfor the bischopis and the Farisees gadriden a counsel ayens Jhesu, and seiden, What do we? for this man doith many myraclis.

⁴⁸If we leeue hym thus, alle men schulen bileue in hym; and Romayns schulen come, and schulen take our place and oure folk.

⁴⁹But oon of hem, Cayfas bi name, whanne he was bischop of that yeer, seide to hem,

⁵⁰Ye witen nothing, ne thenken, that it spedith to you, that o man die for the puple, and that al the folc perische not.

⁵¹But he seide not this thing of hym silf, but whanne he was bischop of that yeer, he prophesiede, that Jhesu was to die for the folc,

⁵²and not oneli for the folc, but that he schulde gadere in to oon the sones of God that weren scaterid.

⁵³Therfor fro that day thei souyten for to sle hym.