³⁰ Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.^{(A) 31} When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her,^(B) noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.

³² When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”^(C)

³³ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved^(D) in spirit and troubled.^{(E) 34} “Where have you laid him?” he asked.

“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.

³⁵ Jesus wept.^(F)

³⁶ Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”^(G)

³⁷ But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man^(H) have kept this man from dying?”^(I)

Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead

³⁸ Jesus, once more deeply moved,^(J) came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.^{(K) 39} “Take away the stone,” he said.

“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”^(L)

⁴⁰ Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe,^(M) you will see the glory of God?”^(N)

⁴¹ So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up^(O) and said, “Father,^(P) I thank you that you have heard me. ⁴² I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here,^(Q) that they may believe that you sent me.”^(R)

⁴³ When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”^{(S) 44} The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen,^(T) and a cloth around his face.^(U)

Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

The Plot to Kill Jesus

⁴⁵ Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary,^(V) and had seen what Jesus did,^(W) believed in him.^{(X) 46} But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. ⁴⁷ Then the chief priests and the Pharisees^(Y) called a meeting^(Z) of the Sanhedrin.^(AA)

“What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many signs.^{(AB) 48} If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.”

⁴⁹ Then one of them, named Caiaphas,^(AC) who was high priest that year,^(AD) spoke up, “You know nothing at all! ⁵⁰ You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”^(AE)

⁵¹ He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, ⁵² and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.^{(AF) 53} So from that day on they plotted to take his life.^(AG)

⁵⁴ Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea.^(AH) Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.

⁵⁵ When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover,^(AI) many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing^(AJ) before the Passover. ⁵⁶ They kept looking for Jesus,^(AK) and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the festival at all?” ⁵⁷ But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.