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I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so they may believe You sent Me."
43
After He said this, He shouted with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"
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The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Loose him and let him go."
The Plot to Kill Jesus
45 Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what He did believed in Him.
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But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
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So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we going to do since this man does many signs?
48
If we let Him continue in this way, everybody will believe in Him! Then the Romans will come and remove both our place and our nation."
49
One of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all!
50
You're not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish."
51
He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,
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and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children of God.