39Jesus says: Take away the stone. The sister of him that was dead, Martha, says to him: Lord, by this time he is offensive; for he has been dead four days. 40Jesus says to her: Said I not to thee, that, if thou believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?
41So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes upward, and said: Father, I thank thee that thou didst hear me. 42And I knew that thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the multitude standing around I said it, that they might believe that thou didst send me. 43And having thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth. 44And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus says to them: Loose him, and let him go.
45Many therefore of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what he did, believed on him. 46But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did.
47Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said: What do we, seeing that this man works many signs? 48If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him; and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation. 49And a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them: Ye know nothing; 50nor do ye consider that it is expedient for us, that one man die for the people, and not the whole nation perish. 51And this he spoke not of himself; but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation; 52and not for the nation only, but that also he should gather together into one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
53Therefore from that day forth they took counsel together to put him to death. 54Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews; but departed thence to the country near to the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
55And the passover of the Jews was at hand; and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country, before the passover, that they might purify themselves. 56They sought therefore for Jesus, and said among themselves, as they stood in the temple: What think ye, that he will not come to the feast? 57Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any one knew where he was, he should make it known, that they might seize him.
XII. Therefore Jesus, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom Jesus raised from the dead. 2They therefore made him a supper there, and Martha served; and Lazarus was one of those who reclined at table with him.
3Then Mary took a pound of ointment of pure spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. 4Then says one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who was about to betray him: 5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred denáries[5], and given to the poor? 6This he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bore[6] what was put therein. 7Then said Jesus: Let her alone; she has kept it[7] to the day of my preparation for burial. 8For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
9A great multitude of the Jews therefore knew that he was there. And they came, not because of Jesus only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he raised from the dead.
10But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death; 11because by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.