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So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for having heard me.
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I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."
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When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"
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The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."
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Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.
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But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what he had done.
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So the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and said, "What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
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If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation."
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But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all!
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You do not understand that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed."
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He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation,