John 11:42-49

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!