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27 “Yes, Lord,” she told him. “I have always believed you are the Messiah,
the Son of God, the one who has come into the world from God.” 28 Then she
returned to Mary. She called Mary aside from the mourners and told her,
“The Teacher is here and wants to see you.” 29 So Mary immediately went
to him.
30 Jesus had stayed outside the village, at the place where Martha met him.
31 When the people who were at the house consoling Mary saw her leave so
hastily, they assumed she was going to Lazarus’s grave to weep. So they fol
lowed her there. 32 When Mary arrived and saw Jesus, she fell at his feet and
said, “Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33 When Jesus saw her weeping and saw the other people wailing with her,
a deep anger welled up within him,* and he was deeply troubled. 34 “Where
have you put him?” he asked them.
They told him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Then Jesus wept. 36 The people who
were standing nearby said, “See how much he loved him!” 37 But some said,
“This man healed a blind man. Couldn’t he have kept Lazarus from dying?”
38 Jesus was still angry as he arrived at the tomb, a cave with a stone rolled
across its entrance. 39 “Roll the stone aside,” Jesus told them.
But Martha, the dead man’s sister, protested, “Lord, he has been dead for
four days. The smell will be terrible.”
40 Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that you would see God’s glory if you
believe?” 41 So they rolled the stone aside. Then Jesus looked up to heaven
and said, “Father, thank you for hearing me. 42 You always hear me, but I
said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here, so that they
will believe you sent me.” 43 Then Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!” 44 And
the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound in graveclothes, his face
wrapped in a headcloth. Jesus told them, “Unwrap him and let him go!”
The Plot to Kill Jesus
45 Many of the people who were with Mary believed in Jesus when they saw
this happen. 46 But some went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus
had done. 47 Then the leading priests and Pharisees called the high coun
cil* together. “What are we going to do?” they asked each other. “This man
certainly performs many miraculous signs. 48 If we allow him to go on like
this, soon everyone will believe in him. Then the Roman army will come and
destroy both our Temple* and our nation.”
49 Caiaphas, who was high priest at that time,* said, “You don’t know what
you’re talking about! 50 You don’t realize that it’s better for you that one man
should die for the people than for the whole nation to be destroyed.”
51 He did not say this on his own; as high priest at that time he was led to
prophesy that Jesus would die for the entire nation. 52 And not only for that
nation, but to bring together and unite all the children of God scattered
around the world.
53 So from that time on, the Jewish leaders began to plot Jesus’ death. 54 As
a result, Jesus stopped his public ministry among the people and left Jeru
salem. He went to a place near the wilderness, to the village of Ephraim, and
stayed there with his disciples.
55 It was now almost time for the Jewish Passover celebration, and many
people from all over the country arrived in Jerusalem several days early so
11:33 Or he was angry in his spirit. 11:47 Greek the Sanhedrin.
reads our place. 11:49 Greek that year; also in 11:51.
11:48 Or our position; Greek
