John 11:47-57 ▼

47 Then gathered the hye priestes and the pharisees a councell, and sayde: What do we? For this man doth many miracles.

48 If we let hym scape thus, all men wyll beleue on him, and the Romaynes shall come, and take away both our rowme and the people.

49 And one of them named Caiaphas, beyng the hye priest that same yere, sayde vnto them: Ye perceaue nothyng at all,

50 Nor consider, that it is expedient for vs, that one man dye for the people, and not that all the people perishe.

51 This spake he, not of hym selfe, but beyng hye priest that same yere, he prophesied that Iesus shoulde dye for the people,

52 And not for the people only: but that he shoulde gather together in one, the chyldren of God, that were scattered abrode.

53 Then from that day foorth, they toke councell together, for to put hym to death.

54 Iesus therfore walked no more openlye among the Iewes: but went his way thence, vnto a countrey nye to a wildernesse, into a citie which is called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.

55 And the Iewes Easter was nye at hande, and many went out of the countrey vp to Hierusale before the Easter, to purifie them selues.

56 Then sought they for Iesus, & spake among them selues, as they stoode in the temple: What thynke ye, seeyng he commeth not to the feast day?

57 The hye priestes and pharisees had geuen a commaundement, that yf any man knewe where he were, he shoulde shewe it, that they myght take hym.