John 11:37-57 Some of them said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have prevented this man from dying?"

Riverside⁽ⁱ⁾ ³⁷ Some of them said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have prevented this man from dying?" ³⁸ Jesus, again indignant, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying on the entrance. ³⁹ Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Master, he is already offensive, for he has been dead four days." ⁴⁰ Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?" ⁴¹ So they took away the stone. Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank thee for hearing me. ⁴² I know that thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the crowd that stand around I say it, that they may believe that thou didst send me." ⁴³ After saying this he called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth." ⁴⁴ Forth came the dead man, swathed feet and hands in grave-clothes and his face bound up in a handkerchief. Jesus said, "Loose him and let him go." ⁴⁵ Many of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen what Jesus did believed in him. ⁴⁶ But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. ⁴⁷ So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we doing? for this man is doing many signs. ⁴⁸ If we let him alone in this way, all will believe in him and the Romans will come and destroy our place and nation." ⁴⁹ One of them, Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said to them, "You do not know anything ⁵⁰ nor do you reason that it is better for you that one man should die for the people and so the whole nation escape destruction." ⁵¹ He did not say this of himself, but being High Priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation, ⁵² and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God now scattered far and wide. ⁵³ From that day they plotted to kill him. ⁵⁴ So Jesus no more walked about openly among the Jews, but went away from there into the country near the wild lands, to a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with his disciples. ⁵⁵ The Passover of the Jews was near and many went up to Jerusalem from the country before the Passover to purify themselves. ⁵⁶ They were looking for Jesus and were saying to one another, as they stood in the Temple courts, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?" ⁵⁷ The high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that, if any one knew where he was, he should report it so that they might arrest him.