John 11:30-57

21st Century King James Version

³⁰ Now Jesus had not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met Him.

³¹ The Jews then, who were with her in the house and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, “She goeth unto the grave to weep there.”

³² Then when Mary had come where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying unto Him, “Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother would not have died.”

³³ When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who came with her, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled,

³⁴ and said, “Where have ye laid him?” They said unto Him, “Lord, come and see.”

³⁵ Jesus wept.

³⁶ Then said the Jews, “Behold, how he loved him!”

³⁷ And some of them said, “Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?”

³⁸ Jesus therefore again, groaning in Himself, came to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

³⁹ Jesus said, “Take ye away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him that was dead, said unto Him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he hath been dead four days.”

⁴⁰ Jesus said unto her, “Said I not unto thee that if thou would believe, thou should see the glory of God?”

⁴¹ Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard Me.

⁴² And I knew that Thou hearest Me always, but because of the people who stand by I said it, that they may believe that Thou hast sent Me.”

⁴³ And when He thus had spoken, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”

⁴⁴ And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus said unto them, “Loose him, and let him go.”

⁴⁵ Then many of the Jews who came to Mary and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed in Him.

⁴⁶ But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.

⁴⁷ Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council and said, “What shall we do? For this man doeth many miracles.

⁴⁸ If we let him thus alone, all men will believe in him, and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.”

⁴⁹ And one of them named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, “Ye know nothing at all,

⁵⁰ nor consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.”

⁵¹ And he spoke this not of himself, but, being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;

⁵² and not for that nation only, but that also He should gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

⁵³ So from that day forth, they took counsel together to put Him to death.

⁵⁴ Jesus therefore walked no longer openly among the Jews, but went thence unto a region near the wilderness into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with His disciples.

⁵⁵ And the Jews’ Passover was nigh at hand, and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.

⁵⁶ Then they sought for Jesus and spoke among themselves as they stood in the temple, saying, “What think ye — that he will not come to the feast?”

⁵⁷ Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command that if any man knew where He was, he should report it, that they might take Him.