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.”