John 11:43-57 ▼

43 And having said these things, He cried out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

44 The one having been dead came out, the feet and the hands bound with linen strips, and his face bound around in a soudario. Jesus says to them, “Unbind him and allow him to go.”

45 Therefore many of the Jews, having come to Mary and having seen what He did, believed in Him.

46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus did.

47 Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered together a council, and they were saying, “What do we do? For this man does many signs.

48 If we shall let Him alone like this, all will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and will take away both our place and nation.”

49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You? know nothing at all,

50 nor do you? reckon that it is profitable for you? that one man should die for the people and the whole nation should not perish.”

51 Now he did not say this from himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation,

52 and not for the nation only, but also so that the children of God, those having been scattered, He might gather together into one.

53 So from that day they took counsel together that they might kill Him.

54 Therefore Jesus no longer was walking publicly among the Jews, but He went away from there into the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. And there He stayed with the disciples.

55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country before the Passover, so that they might purify themselves.

56 Therefore they were seeking Jesus and were speaking with one another standing in the temple: “What does it seem to you?? That He may not come to the feast?”

57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command that if anyone should know where He is, he should show it, so that they might seize Him.