39. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, “Lord, he is stinking already, because it has been four days.”
40. Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
41. So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes above and said, “Father, I give thanks to you that you hear me.
42. And I know that you always hear me, but for the sake of the crowd standing around I said it, so that they may believe that you sent me.”
43. And when he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44. The one who had died came out, his feet and his hands bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped with a facecloth. Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go.”
45. Then many of the Jews who had come with Mary and saw the things which he did believed in him.
46. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.
47. So the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs!
48. If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
49. But a certain one of them, Caiaphas (who was high priest in that year), said to them, “You do not know anything at all!
50. Nor do you consider that it is profitable for you that one man should die for the people, and the whole nation not perish.”
51. (Now he did not say this from himself, but being high priest in that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,