^{37 Ref} and certain of them said, `Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?'

^{38 Ref} Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it,

^{39 Ref} Jesus saith, `Take ye away the stone;' the sister of him who hath died -- Martha -- saith to him, `Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;'

^{40 Ref} Jesus saith to her, `Said I not to thee, that if thou mayest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?'

^{41 Ref} They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, `Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me;

^{42 Ref} and I knew that Thou always dost hear me, but, because of the multitude that is standing by, I said `it', that they may believe that Thou didst send me.'

^{43 Ref} And these things saying, with a loud voice he cried out, `Lazarus, come forth;'

^{44 Ref} and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his visage with a napkin was bound about; Jesus saith to them, `Loose him, and suffer to go.'

^{45 Ref} Many, therefore, of the Jews who came unto Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in him;

^{46 Ref} but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did;

^{47 Ref} the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?

^{48 Ref} if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'

^{49 Ref} and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything,

^{50 Ref} nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'