⁴³ When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”^{(A) 44} The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen,^(B) and a cloth around his face.^(C)

Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

The Plot to Kill Jesus

⁴⁵ Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary,^(D) and had seen what Jesus did,^(E) believed in him.^{(F) 46} But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. ⁴⁷ Then the chief priests and the Pharisees^(G) called a meeting^(H) of the Sanhedrin.^(I)

“What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many signs.^{(J) 48} If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.”

⁴⁹ Then one of them, named Caiaphas,^(K) who was high priest that year,^(L) spoke up, “You know nothing at all! ⁵⁰ You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”^(M)

⁵¹ He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, ⁵² and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.^{(N) 53} So from that day on they plotted to take his life.^(O)

⁵⁴ Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea.^(P) Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.

⁵⁵ When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover,^(Q) many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing^(R) before the Passover. ⁵⁶ They kept looking for Jesus,^(S) and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the festival at all?” ⁵⁷ But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.

Jesus Anointed at Bethany^(T)

12 Six days before the Passover,^(U) Jesus came to Bethany,^(V) where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

¹⁷ Now the crowd that was with him^(A) when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to spread the word. ¹⁸ Many people, because they had heard that he had performed this sign,^(B) went out to meet him. ¹⁹ So the Pharisees said to one another, “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!”^(C)

Jesus Predicts His Death

²⁰ Now there were some Greeks^(D) among those who went up to worship at the festival. ²¹ They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida^(E) in Galilee, with a request. “Sir,” they said, “we would like to see Jesus.” ²² Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus.

²³ Jesus replied, “The hour^(F) has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.^{(G) 24} Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies,^(H) it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. ²⁵ Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it^(I) for eternal life.^{(J) 26} Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be.^(K) My Father will honor the one who serves me.

²⁷ “Now my soul is troubled,^(L) and what shall I say? ‘Father,^(M) save me from this hour’?^(N) No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. ²⁸ Father, glorify your name!”

Then a voice came from heaven,^(O) “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” ²⁹ The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.

³⁰ Jesus said, “This voice was for your benefit,^(P) not mine. ³¹ Now is the time for judgment on this world;^(Q) now the prince of this world^(R) will be driven out. ³² And I, when I am lifted up^[a] from the earth,^(S) will draw all people to myself.”^{(T) 33} He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.^(U)

³⁴ The crowd spoke up, “We have heard from the Law^(V) that the Messiah will remain forever,^(W) so how can you say, ‘The Son of Man^(X) must be lifted up’?^(Y) Who is this ‘Son of Man’?”

³⁵ Then Jesus told them, “You are going to have the light^(Z) just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light,^(AA) before darkness overtakes you.^(AB) Whoever walks in the dark does not know where they are going. ³⁶ Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light.”^(AC) When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them.^(AD)

Belief and Unbelief Among the Jews

³⁷ Even after Jesus had performed so many signs^(AE) in their presence, they still would not believe in him. ³⁸ This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet:

³⁹ For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:

⁴¹ Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory^(AH) and spoke about him.^(AI)

⁴² Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him.^(AJ) But because of the Pharisees^(AK) they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;^{(AL) 43} for they loved human praise^(AM) more than praise from God.^(AN)

⁴⁴ Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.^{(AO) 45} The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me.^{(AP) 46} I have come into the world as a light,^(AQ) so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.

⁴⁷ “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.^{(AR) 48} There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them^(AS) at the last day. ⁴⁹ For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me^(AT) to say all that I have spoken. ⁵⁰ I know that his command leads to eternal life.^(AU) So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”^(AV)