John 11:43-53

Twentieth_Century(i) 43 Then, after saying this, Jesus called in a loud voice: "Lazarus! come out!" 44 The dead man came out, wrapped hand and foot in a winding- sheet; his face, too, had been wrapped in a cloth. "Set him free," said Jesus, "and let him go." 45 In consequence of this, many of the Jews, who had come to visit Mary and had seen what Jesus did, learned to believe in him. 46 Some of them, however, went to the Pharisees, and told them what he had done. 47 Upon this the Chief Priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the High Council, and said: "What are we to do, now that this man is giving so many signs? 48 If we let him alone as we are doing, every one will believe in him; and the Romans will come and will take from us both our City and our Nationality." 49 One of them, however, Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said to them: 50 "You are utterly mistaken. You do not consider that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, rather than the whole nation should be destroyed." 51 Now he did not say this of his own accord; but, as High Priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was to die for the nation-- 52 And not for the nation only, but also that he might unite in one body the Children of God now scattered far and wide. 53 So from that day they plotted to put Jesus to death.