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,
52. and not for the nation only, but also that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered into one.)
53. So from that day they resolved that they should kill him.
54. So Jesus was no longer walking openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.
55. Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the surrounding country before the Passover, so that they could purify themselves.