John 11:41-57 ▼

41 Then they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said: Father, I thank thee, that thou hast heard me.

42 I know, in deed, that thou dost always hear me. But for the sake of the multitude who stand around me, I have said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

43 And when he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

44 And he that had been dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes; and his face was bound around with a handkerchief. Jesus said to them: Loose him, and let him go.

45 Then many of the Jews that had come to Mary, and who saw what he had done, believed on him.

46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus had done.

47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin, and said: What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

48 If we thus let him alone, all will believe on him, and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation.

49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was chief priest that year, said to them: You know nothing,

50 nor do you consider that it is profitable for us, that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.

51 But this he did not speak of himself; but being chief priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation;

52 and not for the nation only, but that he should gather into one the children of God that were scattered abroad.

53 From that day, therefore, they consulted together to put him to death.

54 Therefore, Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but withdrew thence to the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he remained with his disciples.

55 And the passover of the Jews was near; and many went up from the country to Jerusalem, before the passover, to purify themselves.

56 Then they sought for Jesus, and said one to another, as they stood in the temple: What think you, that he will not come to the feast?

57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders, that, if any one knew where he was, he should inform them, that they might take him.