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Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days."
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Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?"
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So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
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I knew that thou hearest me always, but I have said this on account of the people standing by, that they may believe that thou didst send me."
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When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Laz'arus, come out."
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The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with bandages, and his face wrapped with 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 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 gathered the council, and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.
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If we let him go on thus, every one 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, Ca'iaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all;