33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
34 And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he aloved him!
37 And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a astone lay upon it.
39 Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the aglory of God?
41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I athank thee that thou hast heard me.
42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast asent me.
43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, aLazarus, come forth.
44 And he that was adead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a bnapkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
45 Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him.
46 But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.
47 ¶ Then gathered the chief apriests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many bmiracles.
48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
49 And one of them, named aCaiaphas, being the bhigh priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should adie for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
51 And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
52 And not for that nation only, but that also he should agather together in one the bchildren of God that were scattered abroad.
53 Then from that day forth they took acounsel together for to put him to bdeath.
Jesus had sufficient notification of the illness of Lazarus and of his death to arrive in time to heal him or to resurrect his newly dead body, yet he delayed until Lazarus had been four days dead
[align=center]Twice Jesus "groaned in the spirit" at what was eerily a precursor to his own demise, the stone being rolled away from the tomb and the burial cloths removed.[/align]Because of this resurrection and the number of people who witnessed it gave Caiaphas, the High Priest of that year, the idea of sacrificing Jesus as the "sin offering" for Israel.



