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New Testament
John 11:45-57
The Plot
45Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him. 46But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47So the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. They asked, “What are we going to do, because this man is doing many miraculous signs? 48If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him. Then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
49But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. 50You do not even consider that it is better for us[] that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.” 51He did not say this on his own, but, as high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, 52and not only for that nation, but also in order to gather into one the scattered children of God.
53So from that day on they plotted to kill him. 54Therefore Jesus no longer walked about openly among the Jews. Instead he withdrew into a region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim. And he stayed there with his disciples.
55The Jewish Passover was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country to purify themselves before the Passover. 56They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple area, “What do you think? He certainly won't come to the Festival, will he?” 57The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where Jesus was, he should report it so that they could arrest Jesus.
Footnotes
- 11:50 Some witnesses to the text read you.