Once more there was division among the Jews because of those words. And many of them said: He is possessed, and raves. Why do you listen to him? Others said: These are not the words of a man possessed. Could a fiend open the eyes of the blind?
Then it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus walked about in the temple, in the Porch of Solomon. The Jews surrounded and said to him: How long will you go on agitating our spirits? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them: I told you, and you do not believe. The acts I perform in the name of my father, these bear me witness; but you do not believe, for you are not of my flock. My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give them life everlasting, and they shall not perish forever, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. What my father gave me is greater than all, and no one can snatch it from the hand of the father. I and the father are one. Then the Jews picked up stones once more, to stone him. Jesus answered them: I have shown you many good acts from my father. For which of these acts do you stone me? The Jews answered him: We stone you not for any good act, but for blasphemy, and because you, who are a man, make yourself God. Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I have said: You are gods? If he called those gods to whom the word of God came, and scripture cannot be voided, then do you say of one whom the father hallowed and sent into the world: You blaspheme; because I said I am the son of God? If I do not do the acts of my father, do not believe me. But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the acts, so that you may see and know that the father is in me and I ^ in the father. Then once again they tried to seize him; and he passed through their hands.
And he went back beyond Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing before, and remained there. And many c^e to him and said: John wrought no miracle for us, but all that John said about ^rn was true. And many there believed in him.
•1 There was a man who was sick, Lazarus, from Bethany, the village of Mary and Martha her sister. It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, and it was her brother Lazarus who was sick. So the sisters sent to him saying: Lord, see, a man you love is sick. When Jesus heard it he said: This sickness is not to the death but is for the glory of God so that the son of God may be glorified through it. And Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. Now when he heard that he was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two days, after which he said to his disciples: Let us go back to Judaea. His disciples said to him: Master, just now the Jews were trying to stone you; and will you go back there? Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walks in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world; but if he walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not there. This he said, and after this he said to them: Lazarus our friend has gone to his rest, but I am on my way to waken him. So the disciples said to him: Lord, if he has gone to his rest he will be safe. Jesus had been speaking of his death, but they thought he was talking about the rest which comes from sleep. So then Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead; and I am glad on your account, so that you may believe, that I was not there. But let us go to him. Then Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples: Let us also go, so that we may die with him.
When Jesus arrived he found that he had been four days in the tomb. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about twenty-five furlongs off. And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them for their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming she went out to meet him; but Mary was sitting in the house. Then Martha said to Jesus: Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died; even now I know that all that you ask of God God will give you. Jesus said to her: Your brother will resurrect. Martha said to him: I know that he will resurrect in the resurrection on the last day. Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me shall live, even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall not die, ever. Do you believe this? She said to him: Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the son of God, who is coming into this world. So saying, she went back and called Mary her sister, saying to her privately: The master is here and calls for you. When Mary heard this, she rose up quickly and went to him; and Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had gone to meet him. So the Jews who had been with her in the house, comforting her, seeing that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was on her way to the tomb to lament there. When Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him: Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. When Jesus saw her weeping, and saw the Jews who had come with her weeping, he raged at his own spirit, and harrowed himself, and said: Where have you laid him? They said to him: Lord, come and see. Jesus wept. Then the Jews said: See how he loved him. But some of them said: Could not he, who opened the eyes of the blind man, make it so that this man also might not die? Jesus once more was inwardly raging, and went to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was set in front of it. Jesus said: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him: Lord, by now he smells, since he has been there four days. Jesus said to her: Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God? So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said: Father, I thank you for hearing me, and I know that you always hear me; but because of the crowd which surrounds me, I said it so that they should believe that you sent me. After saying this he cried out in a great voice: Lazarus, come out here. And the man who had died came out, with his hands and feet wrapped in bandages, and his face tied up in cloth. Jesus said to them: Untie him and let him go.
Then many of the Jews, who had gone to Mary and seen what he did, believed in him; but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. So the high priests and the Pharisees called a council and said: What are we doing about this man who performs so many miracles? If we let him go on like this, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our country and our nationality. But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest for that year, said to them: You know nothing: nor do you understand that it is for your advantage for one man to die, for the sake of the people, and not have the whole nation destroyed. This he said not of himself, but as high priest for that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the sake of the nation, and not only for the sake of the nation, but so that he might bring together the scattered children of God.