^{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.'

^{51 Ref} And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation,

^{52 Ref} and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.

^{53 Ref} From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him;