- 11:41Then they took the stone away. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
- 11:42And I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the crowd standing around, I said it, that they may believe that You have sent Me.
- 11:43And when He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, Lazarus, come out!
- 11:44And he who had died came out, bound hand and foot with cloths, and his face was bound about with a handkerchief. Jesus said to them, Loose him and let him go.
- 11:45Many of the Jews therefore who had come to Mary and beheld the things that He did believed into Him.
- 11:46But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things that Jesus did.
- 11:47Then the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled a council and said, What do we do? For this man is doing many signs.
- 11:48If we let Him do so, all will believe into Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
- 11:49But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You know nothing at all,
- 11:50Nor do you take account of the fact that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people and that not the whole nation perish.
- 11:51But this he did not say from himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was to die for the nation,
- 11:52And not for the nation only, but that He might also gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
- 11:53From that day therefore they took counsel to kill Him.
- 11:54Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there He remained with the disciples.
- 11:55Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover in order to purify themselves.
- 11:56They then sought Jesus, and said to one another as they stood in the temple, What do you think? That He will not, by any means, come to the feast?
- 11:57Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he should disclose it, so that they might arrest Him.