John 11:45–54 · BSB
11:45
Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.
11:46
But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
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11:47
Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
11:48
If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
11:49
But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!
11:50
You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
11:51
Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,
11:52
and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.
11:53
So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.
11:54
As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.
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