John 11:43-52

43After he said this, he shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

44The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and let him go.”

45Therefore, many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he did believed in him.

46But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

47So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and were saying, “What are we going to do since this man is doing many signs?

48If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

49One of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

50You’re not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.”

51He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

52and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children of God.