John 11:47-53 ▼

47 So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, |What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.

48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our Temple and our nation.|

49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, told them, |You don't know anything!

50 You don't realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed.|

51 Now he did not say this on his own initiative. As high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

52 and not only for the nation, but that he would also gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

53 So from that day on they resolved to put him to death.