John 11:40-53

New International Version

⁴⁰ Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe,^(A) you will see the glory of God?”^(B)

⁴¹ So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up^(C) and said, “Father,^(D) I thank you that you have heard me. ⁴² I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here,^(E) that they may believe that you sent me.”^(F)

⁴³ When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”^{(G) 44} The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen,^(H) and a cloth around his face.^(I)

Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

The Plot to Kill Jesus

⁴⁵ Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary,^(J) and had seen what Jesus did,^(K) believed in him.^{(L) 46} But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. ⁴⁷ Then the chief priests and the Pharisees^(M) called a meeting^(N) of the Sanhedrin.^(O)

“What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many signs.^{(P) 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 temple and our nation.”

⁴⁹ Then one of them, named Caiaphas,^(Q) who was high priest that year,^(R) spoke up, “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 perish.”^(S)

⁵¹ He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, ⁵² and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.^{(T) 53} So from that day on they plotted to take his life.^(U)