39. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the dead man’s sister, said to him, “Lord, by now there will be a stench; he has been dead for four days.”
40. Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?”
41. So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you for hearing me.
42. I know that you always hear me; but because of the crowd here I have said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”
43. And when he had said this, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44. The dead man came out, tied hand and foot with burial bands, and his face was wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go.”
45. Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what he had done began to believe in him.
46. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47. So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.
48. If we leave him alone, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our land and our nation.”
49. But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing,
50. nor do you consider that it is better for you that one man should die instead of the people, so that the whole nation may not perish.”
51. He did not say this on his own, but since he was high priest for that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,
52. and not only for the nation, but also to gather into one the dispersed children of God.