John 11:37-50
English Standard Version
38Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
39Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days."
40Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?"
41So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
42I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me."
43When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out."
44The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."
45Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,
46but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.
48If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."
49But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all.
50Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish."
