John 11:43-57 ▼

43 And saying these things, He cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”

44 And he who died came forth, feet and hands being bound with grave-clothes, and his face was bound around with a napkin; Jesus says to them, “Loose him, and permit to go.”

45 Many, therefore, of the Jews who came to Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in Him;

46 but certain of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did;

47 the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together [the] Sanhedrin and said, “What may we do? Because this Man does many signs?

48 If we may leave Him alone thus, all will believe in Him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.”

49 And a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, “You have not known anything,

50 nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.”

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

52 and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, He may gather together into one.

53 From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill Him;

54 Jesus, therefore, was no longer freely walking among the Jews, but went away from there into the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there He tarried with His disciples.

55 And the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover, that they might purify themselves;

56 therefore they were seeking Jesus and said with one another, standing in the temple, “What appears to you—that He may not come to the celebration?”

57 And both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if anyone may know where He is, he may show [it], so that they may seize Him.