011:037 But others of them asked, "Was this man who opened the blind man's eyes unable to prevent this man from dying?" 011:038 Jesus, however, again restraining His strong feeling, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone had been laid against the mouth of it. 011:039 "Take away the stone," said Jesus. Martha, the sister of the dead man, exclaimed, "Master, by this time there is a foul smell; for it is three days since he died." 011:040 "Did I not promise you," replied Jesus, "that if you believe, you shall see the glory of God?" 011:041 So they removed the stone. Then Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard me. 011:042 I know that Thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the crowd standing round I have said this--that they may believe that Thou didst send me." 011:043 After speaking thus, He called out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out." 011:044 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped in cloths, and his face wrapped round with a towel. "Untie him," said Jesus, "and let him go free." 011:045 Thereupon a considerable number of the Jews--namely those who had come to Mary and had witnessed His deeds-- became believers in Him; 011:046 though some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them what He had done. 011:047 Therefore the High Priests and the Pharisees held a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "What steps are we taking?" they asked one another; "for this man is performing a great number of miracles. 011:048 If we leave him alone in this way, everybody will believe in him, and the Romans will come and blot out both our city and our nation." 011:049 But one of them, named Caiaphas, being High Priest that year, said, "You know nothing about it. 011:050 You do not reflect that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish." 011:051 It was not as a mere man that he thus spoke. But being High Priest that year he was inspired to declare that Jesus was to die for the nation, 011:052 and not for the nation only, but in order to unite into one body all the far-scattered children of God. 011:053 So from that day forward they planned and schemed in order to put Him to death. 011:054 Therefore Jesus no longer went about openly among the Jews, but He left that neighbourhood and went into the district near the Desert, to a town called Ephraim, and remained there with the disciples. 011:055 The Jewish Passover was coming near, and many from that district went up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves. 011:056 They therefore looked out for Jesus, and asked one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think?--will he come to the Festival at all?"