John 11:41-57 ▼

41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus (YHWH saves) lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father {Pater}, I thank You that You have heard Me.

42 I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.

43 After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus (God has helped), come out!

44 The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth {soudariō}. “Unwrap him and let him go, Jesus (YHWH saves) told them.

45 Therefore many of the Jews (people of praise) who had come to Mary (beloved), and had seen what Jesus did, believed (had faith) in Him.

46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus (YHWH saves) had done.

47 Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin (the Council) and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.

48 If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation {ethnos}.

49 But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You⁺ know nothing at all!

50 You⁺ do not realize that it is better for you⁺ that one man die for the people than that the whole nation {ethnos} perish.

51 Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying (foretelling) that Jesus (YHWH saves) would die for the nation {ethnous},

52 and not only for the nation {ethnous}, but also for the scattered children of God {Theou}, to gather them together into one.

53 So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

54 As a result, Jesus (YHWH saves) no longer went about publicly among the Jews (people of praise), but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim (fruitful) in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples (pupils).

55 Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem (city of peace) to purify themselves before the Passover.

56 They kept looking for Jesus (YHWH saves) and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts \the temple/, “What do you⁺ think? Will He come to the feast at all?

57 But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.