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John - ch 11 v 41 - 57
- They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifted up his eyes on high and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me;
- but I knew that thou always hearest me; but on account of the crowd who stand around I have said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
- And having said this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
- And the dead came forth, bound feet and hands with graveclothes, and his face was bound round with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, Loose him and let him go.
- Many therefore of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he had done, believed on him;
- but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
- The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many signs.
- If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
- But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing
- nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.
- But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;
- and not for the nation only, but that he should also gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.
- From that day therefore they took counsel that they might kill him.
- Jesus therefore walked no longer openly among the Jews, but went away thence into the country near the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and there he sojourned with the disciples.
- But the passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves.
- They sought therefore Jesus, and said among themselves, standing in the temple, What do ye think? that he will not come to the feast?
- Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment that if any one knew where he was, he should make it known, that they might take him.
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