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John 11
⁴³ Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth!"
⁴⁴ And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Loose him, and let him go."
⁴⁵ Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in Him.
⁴⁶ But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things Jesus did.
⁴⁷ Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, "What shall we do? For this Man works many signs.
⁴⁸ If we let Him alone like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation."
⁴⁹ And one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,
⁵⁰ nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish."
⁵¹ Now this he did not say on his own authority; but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
⁵² and not for that nation only, but also that He would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.
⁵³ Then, from that day on, they plotted to put Him to death.