John 11:39-57 ▼

39 And Iesus sayd: take ye awaye the stone. Martha the sister of him that was deed sayd vnto him: Lorde by this tyme he stinketh. For he hath bene deed foure dayes:

40 Iesus sayde vnto her: Sayde I not vnto the yt if thou didest beleve thou shuldest se ye glory of God.

41 Then they toke awaye ye stone from ye place where the deed was layde. And Iesus lyfte vp his eyes and sayde: Father I thanke the because that thou hast hearde me.

42 I wot that thou hearest me all wayes: but because of the people that stonde by I sayde it yt they maye beleve that thou hast sent me.

43 And when he thus had spoken he cryed wt a loud voyce. Lazarus come forthe.

44 And he that was deed came forth bounde hand and fote with grave bondes and his face was bounde with a napkin. Iesus sayde vnto the: loowse him and let him goo.

45 Then many of the Iewes which came to Mary and had sene the thinges which Iesus dyd beleved on him.

46 But some of them went their wayes to the Pharises and tolde them what Iesus had done.

47 Then gadered the hye prestes and the Pharises a counsell and sayde: what do we? This ma doeth many miracles.

48 Yf we let him scape thus all men will beleve on him and ye Romaynes shall come and take awaye oure countre and the people.

49 And one of them named Cayphas which was the hieprest yt same yeare sayde vnto them: Ye perceave nothinge at all

50 nor yet consider that it is expedient for vs that one man dye for the people and not that all the people perisshe.

51 This spake he not of him selfe but beinge hye preste that same yeare he prophesied that Iesus shulde dye for the people

52 and not for the people only but that he shuld gader to geder in one the chyldren of God which were scattered abroode.

53 From that daye forth they held a counsell to geder for to put him to deeth.

54 Iesus therfore walked no more opely amoge the Iewes: but wet his waye thence vnto a coutre nye to a wildernes into a cite called Ephraim and there hauted with his disciples.

55 And the Iewes ester was nye at hand and many went out of the countre vp to Ierusalem before the ester to purify them selves.

56 Then sought they for Iesus and spake bitwene the selves as they stode in the teple: What thinke ye seynge he cometh not to the feast.

57 The hye prestes and Pharises had geven a comaundemet that yf eny man knew where he were he shuld shewe it that they myght take him.