41. So they rolled away the stone. Yeshua lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard Me.
42. I knew that You always hear Me; but because of this crowd standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me.”
43. And when He had said this, He cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44. He who had been dead came out, wrapped in burial clothes binding his hands and feet, with a cloth over his face. And Yeshua tells them, “Cut him loose, and let him go!”
45. Therefore many of the Judeans, who had come to Miriam and had seen what Yeshua had done, put their trust in Him.
46. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Yeshua had done.
47. So the ruling kohanim and Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. “What are we doing?” they asked. “This Man is performing many signs!
48. If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our holy place and our nation.”
49. But one of them, Caiaphas, who was kohen gadol that year, said to them, “You know nothing!
50. You don’t take into account that it is better for you that one man die for the people rather than for the whole nation to be destroyed.”
51. Now he did not say this by himself; but as the kohen gadol that year, he prophesied that Yeshua would die for the nation.