John 7:2-11:54 - LSB - Legacy Standard Bible

John 7:2-11:54

2 Now the feast of the Jews, ^athe Feast of Booths, was near. 3 Therefore His ^abrothers said to Him, “Leave here and go into Judea, so that Your ^bdisciples also may see Your works which You are doing. 4 For no one does anything in secret ¹when he himself seeks to be known openly. If You do these things, show Yourself publicly to the world.” 5 For not even His ^abrothers were believing in Him. 6 So Jesus *said to them, “^aMy time is not yet here, but your time is always here. 7 ^aThe world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I bear witness about it, that ^bits deeds are evil. 8 Go up to the feast yourselves; I am not ¹yet going up to this feast because ^aMy time has not yet been fulfilled.” 9 Having said these things to them, He stayed in Galilee.
10 But when His ^abrothers had gone up to the feast, then He Himself also went up, not publicly, but as in secret. 11 ^aSo the Jews ^bwere seeking Him at the feast and saying, “Where is He?” 12 And there was much grumbling among the crowds concerning Him; ^asome were saying, “He is a good man”; others were saying, “No, on the contrary, He leads the crowd astray.” 13 Yet no one was speaking openly about Him for ^afear of the Jews.
14 But when it was now the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and began to ^ateach. 15 ^aThe Jews then were marveling, saying, “How has this man ^bbecome learned, not having been educated?” 16 So Jesus answered them and said, “^aMy teaching is not Mine, but from Him who sent Me. 17 ^aIf anyone is willing to do His will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is of God or I speak from Myself. 18 He who speaks from himself ^aseeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.
19 “^aDid not Moses give you the Law? And yet none of you does the Law. Why do you ^bseek to kill Me?” 20 The crowd answered, “^aYou have a demon! Who seeks to kill You?” 21 Jesus answered them, “I did ^aone work, and you all marvel. 22 For this reason ^aMoses has given you circumcision (not because it is from Moses, but from ^bthe fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man. 23 ^aIf a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses will not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath? 24 Do not ^ajudge according to appearance, but ¹judge with righteous judgment.”
25 So some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Is this not the man whom they are seeking to kill? 26 And look, He is speaking openly, and they are saying nothing to Him. ^aDo the rulers truly know that this is the ¹Christ? 27 However, ^awe know where this man is from; but whenever the Christ comes, no one knows where He is from.” 28 Then Jesus cried out in the temple, ^ateaching and saying, “^bYou both know Me and know where I am from; and ^cI have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know. 29 ^aI know Him, because ^bI am from Him, and ^cHe sent Me.” 30 So they ^awere seeking to seize Him; ¹yet no man laid his hand on Him, because His ^bhour had not yet come. 31 But ^amany of the crowd believed in Him; and they were saying, “^bWhen the ¹Christ comes, will He do more ²^csigns than this man did?”
32 The Pharisees heard the crowd ¹whispering these things about Him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent ^aofficers to ^bseize Him. 33 Therefore Jesus said, “^aFor a little while longer I am with you, then ^bI go to Him who sent Me. 34 ^aYou will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.” 35 ^aThe Jews then said to one another, “^bWhere does this man intend to go that we will not find Him? Is He intending to go to ^cthe Dispersion among ^dthe Greeks and teach the Greeks? 36 What is this statement that He said, ‘^aYou will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”
37 Now on ^athe last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “¹^bIf anyone is thirsty, ²let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, ^aas the Scripture said, ‘From ¹his innermost being will flow rivers of ^bliving water.’” 39 But this He spoke ^aof the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were going to receive; for ^bthe Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet ^cglorified.

Division of People over Jesus

40 Some of the crowd therefore, when they heard these words, were saying, “This truly is ^athe Prophet.” 41 Others were saying, “This is the ¹Christ.” Still others were saying, “^aNo, for is the ¹Christ going to come from Galilee? 42 Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from ^athe seed of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” 43 So ^aa division occurred in the crowd because of Him. 44 ^aSome of them were wanting to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
45 The ^aofficers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?” 46 The ^aofficers answered, “^bNever has a man spoken like this!” 47 The Pharisees then answered them, “^aHave you also been led astray? 48 ^aHave any of ^bthe rulers or Pharisees believed in Him? 49 But this crowd which does not know the Law is accursed.” 50 ^aNicodemus (he who came to Him before), being one of them, *said to them, 51 “^aDoes our Law judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing?” 52 They answered him, “^aAre you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee.” 53 ¹[Everyone went to his home.

An Adulteress Forgiven

But Jesus went to ^athe Mount of Olives. 2 Early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people were coming to Him; and ^aHe sat down and began to teach them. 3 The scribes and the Pharisees *brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the center of the court, 4 they *said to Him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now in the Law ^aMoses commanded us to stone such women; what then do You say?” 6 They were saying this, ^atesting Him, ^bso that they might have evidence to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground. 7 But when they persisted in asking Him, ^aHe straightened up and said to them, “^bLet him who is without sin among you be the ^cfirst to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 When they heard it, they began to go out one by one, beginning with the older ones, and He was left alone, and the woman, where she was, in the center of the court. 10 ^aStraightening up, Jesus said to her, “Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?” 11 She said, “No one, ¹Lord.” And Jesus said, “^aI do not condemn you, either. Go, and from now on ^bsin no more.”]

I Am the Light of the World

12 Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “^aI am the Light of the world; ^bhe who follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.” 13 So the Pharisees said to Him, “^aYou are bearing witness about Yourself; Your witness is not ¹true.” 14 Jesus answered and said to them, “^aEven if I bear witness about Myself, My witness is ¹true, for I know ^bwhere I came from and where I am going; but ^cyou do not know where I come from or where I am going. 15 ^aYou judge ¹according to the flesh; ^bI am not judging anyone. 16 But even ^aif I do judge, My judgment is true; for I am not alone in it, but I and the Father who sent Me. 17 Even in ^ayour law it has been written that the witness of ^btwo men is ¹true. 18 I am He who bears witness about Myself, and ^athe Father who sent Me bears witness about Me.” 19 So they were saying to Him, “Where is Your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither Me nor My Father; ^aif you knew Me, you would know My Father also.” 20 These words He spoke in ^athe treasury, as ^bHe was teaching in the temple; and no one seized Him, because ^cHis hour had not yet come.
21 Then He said again to them, “I am going away, and ^ayou will seek Me, and ^bwill die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” 22 So ^athe Jews were saying, “Surely He will not kill Himself, since He says, ‘^bWhere I am going, you cannot come’?” 23 And He was saying to them, “^aYou are from below, I am from above. ^bYou are of this world, ^cI am not of this world. 24 Therefore I said to you that you ^awill die in your sins. For unless you believe that ¹^bI am He, ^ayou will die in your sins.” 25 So they were saying to Him, “Who are You?” Jesus said to them, “¹What have I been saying to you from the beginning? 26 I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but ^aHe who sent Me is true; and ^bthe things which I heard from Him, these I am saying to the world.” 27 They did not know that He had been speaking to them about the Father. 28 So Jesus said, “When you ^alift up the Son of Man, then you will know that ¹^bI am He, and ^cI do nothing from Myself, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me. 29 And He who sent Me is with Me; ^aHe ¹has not left Me alone, for ^bI always do the things that are pleasing to Him.” 30 As He was speaking these things, ^amany believed in Him.

The Son Will Make You Free

31 So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “^aIf you abide in My word, then you are truly My ^bdisciples; 32 and ^ayou will know the truth, and ^bthe truth will make you free.” 33 They answered Him, “^aWe are Abraham’s seed and have never yet been enslaved to anyone. How is it that You say, ‘You will become free’?”
34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^aeveryone who commits sin is the slave of sin. 35 ^aAnd the slave does not remain in the house forever; ^bthe son does remain forever. 36 So if the Son ^amakes you free, you will be free indeed. 37 I know that you are ^aAbraham’s seed; yet ^byou are seeking to kill Me, because My word ¹has no place in you. 38 I speak the things which I have seen ¹with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from ^ayour father.”
39 They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is ^aour father.” Jesus *said to them, “^bIf you are Abraham’s children, you would do the deeds of Abraham. 40 But now ^ayou are seeking to kill Me, a man who has ^btold you the truth, which I heard from God. This Abraham did not do. 41 You are doing the deeds of ^ayour father.” They said to Him, “We were not born of sexual immorality; ^bwe have one Father: God.” 42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, ^ayou would love Me, ^bfor I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have ^cnot even come of Myself, but ¹^dHe sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand ¹^awhat I am saying? It is because you cannot ^bhear My word. 44 ^aYou are of ^byour father the devil, and ^cyou want to do the desires of your father. ^dHe was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because ^ethere is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks ¹a lie, he ^fspeaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of ²lies. 45 But because ^aI speak the truth, you do not believe Me. 46 Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If ^aI speak truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 ^aHe who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.”
48 ^aThe Jews answered and said to Him, “Do we not say rightly that You are a ^bSamaritan and ^chave a demon?” 49 Jesus answered, “I do not ^ahave a demon, but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me. 50 But ^aI do not seek My glory; there is One who seeks and judges. 51 Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone ^akeeps My word he will never ^bsee death—ever.” 52 ^aThe Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You ^bhave a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets also; and You say, ‘If anyone ^ckeeps My word, he will never ^dtaste of death—ever.’ 53 Surely You ^aare not greater than our father Abraham who died? The prophets died too; whom do You make Yourself out to be?” 54 Jesus answered, “^aIf I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; ^bit is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God’; 55 and ^ayou have not known Him, ^bbut I know Him; and if I say that I do not know Him, I will be ^ca liar like you, ^bbut I do know Him and ^dkeep His word. 56 ^aYour father Abraham ^brejoiced ¹to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.” 57 ^aSo the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?” 58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, ^aI am.” 59 Therefore they ^apicked up stones to throw at Him, but Jesus ¹^bhid Himself and went out of the temple.

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. 2 And His disciples asked Him, saying, “^aRabbi, who sinned, ^bthis man or his ^cparents, that he would be born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this was so ^athat the works of God might be manifested in him. 4 We must work the works of Him who sent Me ^aas long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am ^athe light of the world.” 6 When He had said this, He ^aspat on the ground, made clay of the saliva, and rubbed the clay on his eyes, 7 and said to him, “Go, wash in ^athe pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went away and ^bwashed, and ^ccame back seeing. 8 Therefore the neighbors, and those who previously saw him as a beggar, were saying, “Is not this the one who used to ^asit and beg?” 9 Others were saying, “This is he,” still others were saying, “No, but he is like him.” ¹He kept saying, “I am the one.” 10 So they were saying to him, “How then were your eyes opened?” 11 He answered, “The man who is called Jesus made clay, and rubbed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to ^aSiloam and wash’; so when I went away and washed, I received sight.” 12 And they said to him, “Where is He?” He *said, “I do not know.”

Controversy over the Man Born Blind

13 They *brought to the Pharisees the man who was formerly blind. 14 ^aNow it was a Sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. 15 ^aSo the Pharisees also were asking him again how he received his sight. And he said to them, “He applied clay to my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” 16 So then some of the Pharisees were saying, “This man is not from God, because He ^adoes not keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man do such ¹^bsigns?” And ^cthere was a division among them. 17 Therefore, they *said to the blind man ^aagain, “What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?” And he said, “He is a ^bprophet.”
18 ^aThen, the Jews did not believe it of him that he was blind and had received sight, until they called the parents of the very one who had received his sight, 19 and questioned them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?” 20 So his parents answered and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; 21 but how he now sees, we do not know; or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him; he is of age, he will speak for himself.” 22 His parents said this because they ^awere afraid of the Jews; for the Jews ^bhad already agreed that if anyone confessed Him to be ¹Christ, ^che was to be put out of the synagogue. 23 For this reason his parents said, “^aHe is of age; ask him.”
24 Therefore, a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, “^aGive glory to God; we know that ^bthis man is a sinner.” 25 He then answered, “Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” 26 So they said to him, “What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?” 27 He answered them, “^aI told you already and you did not ^blisten. Why do you want to listen again? Do you want to become His disciples too?” 28 And they reviled him and said, “You are His disciple, but ^awe are disciples of Moses. 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, ^awe do not know where He is from.” 30 The man answered and said to them, “Well, here is a marvelous thing, that you do not know where He is from, and He opened my eyes. 31 We know that ^aGod does not listen to sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him. 32 ¹Since the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. 33 ^aIf this man were not from God, He could do nothing.” 34 They answered and said to him, “^aYou were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?” So they ^bput him out.

Jesus Affirms His Deity

35 Jesus heard that they had ^aput him out, and after finding him, He said, “Do you believe in the ^bSon of Man?” 36 He answered and said, “^aWho is He, ¹Lord, that I may believe in Him?” 37 Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him, and ^aHe is the one who is talking with you.” 38 And he said, “Lord, I believe.” And he ^aworshiped Him. 39 And Jesus said, “^aFor judgment I came into this world, so that ^bthose who do not see may see, and that ^cthose who see may become blind.” 40 Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, “^aAre we blind too?” 41 Jesus said to them, “^aIf you were blind, you would have no sin; but now that you say, ‘^bWe see,’ your sin remains.

I Am the Good Shepherd

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is ^aa thief and a robber. 2 But he who enters by the door is ^aa shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear ^ahis voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and ^bleads them out. 4 When he brings all his own out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know ^ahis voice. 5 A stranger they will never follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know ^athe voice of strangers.” 6 This ^afigure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them.
7 So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am ^athe door of the sheep. 8 All who came before Me are ^athieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. 9 ^aI am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they ^amay have life, and ¹have it abundantly.
11 “^aI am the good shepherd; the good shepherd ^blays down His life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand, and not a ^ashepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees—and the wolf snatches and scatters them— 13 because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep. 14 ^aI am the good shepherd, and ^bI know My own and My own know Me, 15 even as ^athe Father knows Me and I know the Father; and ^bI lay down My life for the sheep. 16 And I have ^aother sheep, which are not from this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become ^bone flock with ^cone shepherd. 17 For this reason the Father loves Me, because I ^alay down My life so that I may take it again. 18 ^aNo one ¹takes it away from Me, but from Myself, I ^blay it down. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. ^cThis commandment I received from My Father.”
19 ^aA division occurred again among the Jews because of these words. 20 And many of them were saying, “He ^ahas a demon and ^bis insane. Why do you listen to Him?” 21 Others were saying, “These are not the words of someone ^ademon-possessed. ^bCan a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

I and the Father Are One

22 At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem; 23 it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the Portico of ^aSolomon. 24 ^aThe Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, “How long ¹will You keep us in suspense? If You are the ²Christ, tell us ^bopenly.” 25 Jesus answered them, “^aI told you, and you do not believe; ^bthe works that I do in My Father’s name, these bear witness of Me. 26 But you do not believe because ^ayou are not of My sheep. 27 My sheep ^ahear My voice, and ^bI know them, and they follow Me; 28 and I give ^aeternal life to them, and they will never perish—ever; and ^bno one will snatch them out of My hand. 29 ¹My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. 30 ^aI and the Father are ¹one.”
31 The Jews ^apicked up stones again to stone Him. 32 Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?” 33 The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for ^ablasphemy; and because You, being a man, ^bmake Yourself God.” 34 Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in ^ayour ^bLaw, ‘^cI said, you are gods’? 35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), 36 do you say of Him, whom the Father ^asanctified and ^bsent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘^cI am the Son of God’? 37 ^aIf I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; 38 but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe ^athe works, so that you may know and continue knowing that ^bthe Father is in Me, and I in the Father.” 39 Therefore ^athey were seeking again to seize Him, and ^bHe eluded their grasp.
40 And He went away ^aagain beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He was staying there. 41 And many came to Him and were saying, “While John did no ^asign, yet ^beverything John said about this man was true.” 42 ^aAnd many believed in Him there.

The Death and Resurrection of Lazarus

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from ^aBethany, the village of Mary and her sister ^bMartha. 2 And it was the Mary who ^aanointed ^bthe Lord with perfume, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. 3 So the sisters sent to Him, saying, “^aLord, behold, ^bhe whom You love is sick.” 4 But when Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness is not to end in death, but is for ^athe glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.” 5 Now Jesus loved ^aMartha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days in the place where He was. 7 Then after this He *said to the disciples, “^aLet us go to Judea again.” 8 The disciples *said to Him, “^aRabbi, the Jews were just now seeking ^bto stone You, and are You going there again?” 9 Jesus answered, “^aAre there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.” 11 He said these things, and after that He *said to them, “Our ^afriend Lazarus ^bhas fallen asleep; but I go, so that I may awaken him.” 12 The disciples then said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will ¹be saved from his sickness.” 13 Now ^aJesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He was speaking of ¹actual sleep. 14 So Jesus then said to them ¹plainly, “Lazarus is dead, 15 and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe; but let us go to him.” 16 ^aTherefore Thomas, who is called ¹^bDidymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”
17 So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb ^afour days. 18 Now ^aBethany was near Jerusalem, about ¹fifteen stadia away; 19 and many of ^athe Jews had come to ^bMartha and Mary, ^cto console them about their brother. 20 ^aMartha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet Him, but ^aMary was sitting in the house. 21 Martha then said to Jesus, “^aLord, ^bif You had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that ^awhatever You ask from God, God will give You.” 23 Jesus *said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24 Martha *said to Him, “^aI know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” 25 Jesus said to her, “^aI am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in Me ^awill never die—ever. Do you believe this?” 27 She *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; I have believed that You are ^athe ¹Christ, the Son of God, ²^bthe One who comes into the world.”
28 And when she had said this, she ^awent away and called Mary her sister, saying secretly, “^bThe Teacher is here and is calling for you.” 29 And when she heard it, she *got up quickly and was coming to Him.
30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but ^awas still in the place where Martha met Him. 31 ^aThen the Jews—who were with her in the house and ^bconsoling her—when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, they followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to cry there. 32 Therefore, when Mary came where Jesus was, she saw Him, and fell at His feet, saying to Him, “^aLord, ^bif You had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 When Jesus therefore saw her crying, and ^athe Jews who came with her also crying, He ^bwas ¹deeply moved in spirit and ²^cwas troubled, 34 and said, “Where have you laid him?” They *said to Him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus ^awept. 36 So ^athe Jews were saying, “See how He ^bloved him!” 37 But some of them said, “Could not this man, who ^aopened the eyes of the blind man, ¹have kept this man also from dying?”
38 So Jesus, again being ¹deeply moved within, *came to the tomb. Now it was a ^acave, and a stone was lying against it. 39 Jesus *said, “Remove the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, *said to Him, “Lord, by this time he smells, for he has been dead ^afour days.” 40 Jesus *said to her, “^aDid I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” 41 So they removed the ^astone. Then Jesus ^braised His eyes, and said, “^cFather, I thank You that You have heard Me. 42 And I knew that You always hear Me; but ^abecause of the crowd standing around I said this, so that they may believe that ^bYou sent Me.” 43 And when He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth.” 44 The man who had died came forth, ^abound hand and foot with wrappings, and ^bhis face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus *said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”
45 ^aTherefore many of the Jews ^bwho came to Mary, and ^csaw what He had done, believed in Him. 46 But some of them went to the ^aPharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.

The Leaders Plot to Kill Jesus

47 Therefore ^athe chief priests and the Pharisees ^bgathered the ¹^cSanhedrin together, and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is doing many ²^dsigns. 48 If we let Him go on like this, all will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our ^aplace and our nation.” 49 But one of them, ^aCaiaphas, ^bwho was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, 50 nor do you take into account that ^ait is better for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.” 51 Now he did not say this from himself, but ^abeing high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also ^agather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. 53 So from that day on they ^aplanned together to kill Him.
54 Therefore Jesus ^ano longer continued to walk openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, into a city called ^bEphraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.