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I myself know that you always hear me, but I say this because of the crowd standing around, so that they may believe that you have sent me."
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Having said this, he shouted, "El`azar! Come out!"
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The man who had been dead came out, his hands and feet wrapped in strips of linen and his face covered with a cloth. Yeshua said to them, "Unwrap him, and let him go!"
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At this, many of the Judeans who had come to visit Miryam, and had seen what Yeshua had done, trusted in him.
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But some of them went off to the P'rushim and told them what he had done.
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So the head cohanim and the P'rushim called a meeting of the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we going to do? -- for this man is performing many miracles.
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If we let him keep going on this way, everyone will trust in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both the Temple and the nation."
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But one of them, Kayafa, who was cohen gadol that year, said to them, "You people don't know anything!
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You don't see that it's better for you if one man dies on behalf of the people, so that the whole nation won't be destroyed."
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Now he didn't speak this way on his own initiative; rather, since he was cohen gadol that year, he was prophesying that Yeshua was about to die on behalf of the nation,
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and not for the nation alone, but so that he might gather into one the scattered children of God.