39. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, “Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days.”
40. Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?”
41. So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.
42. I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
43. When he had said this, he shouted in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44. The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, and a cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and let him go.”
45. Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.
46. But some of them went to the Pharisees and reported to them what Jesus had done.
47. So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous 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 our sanctuary and our nation.”
49. Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, “You know nothing at all!
50. You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.”
51. (Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,
52. and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.)
53. So from that day they planned together to kill him.