41. Therefore, they took away the stone. Then, lifting up his eyes, Jesus said: "Father, I give thanks to you because you have heard me.
42. And I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the people who are standing nearby, so that they may believe that you have sent me."
43. When he had said these things, he cried in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out."
44. And immediately, he who had been dead went forth, bound at the feet and hands with winding bands. And his face was bound with a separate cloth. Jesus said to them, "Release him and let him go."
45. Therefore, many of the Jews, who had come to Mary and Martha, and who had seen the things that Jesus did, believed in him.
46. But certain ones among them went to the Pharisees and told them the things that Jesus had done.
47. And so, the high priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and they were saying: "What can we do? For this man accomplishes many signs.