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37 But some of them said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes of that blind man, have kept Lazarus from dying?"
38 Again repressing a groan, Jesus went to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid against the mouth of it.
39 Jesus said, "Move the stone away." The dead man's sister, Martha, said to him, "Master, by this time he is decaying, for he has been dead four days."
40 Jesus said to her, "Have I not promised you that if you will believe in me you will see the glory of God?"
41 So they moved the stone away. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for listening to me,
42 though I knew that you always listen to me. But I have said this for the sake of the people that are standing around me that they may believe that you have made me your messenger."
43 After saying this he called out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"
44 The dead man came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and with his face muffled with a handkerchief. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him and let him move."
45 So it came about that many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and saw what Jesus did, came to believe in him,
46 but some of them went back to the Pharisees and told them what he had done.
47 Then the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and they said, "What are we to do about the fact that this man is showing so many signs?
48 If we let him go on, everybody will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and put an end to our holy place and our people."
49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them,
50 "You know nothing about it. You do not realize that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people, instead of the whole nation being destroyed."