Giovanni 11:50

50 e non considerate ch’egli ci giova che un uomo muoia per lo popolo, e che tutta la nazione non perisca.

Giovanni 11:50 Meaning and Commentary

John 11:50

Nor consider that it is expedient for us
Priests, Levites, Pharisees, the sanhedrim, and ecclesiastical rulers of the people; who, as Caiaphas apprehended, must suffer in their characters and revenues, must quit their honourable and gainful posts and places, if Jesus went on and succeeded at this rate: wherefore it was most expedient and advantageous for them, which was the main thing to be considered in such a council, so he thought it was,

that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation
perish not;
he proceeded entirely upon this political principle, that a public good ought to be preferred to a private one; that it was no matter what the man was, whether innocent or not; common prudence, and the public safety of the nation, required him to fall a sacrifice, rather than the Romans should be exasperated and provoked to such a degree, as to threaten the utter ruin and destruction of the whole nation.

Giovanni 11:50 In-Context

48 Se noi lo lasciamo così, tutti crederanno in lui, e i Romani verranno, e distruggeranno e il nostro luogo, e la nostra nazione.
49 Ed un di loro, cioè Caiafa, ch’era sommo sacerdote di quell’anno, disse loro: Voi non avete alcun conoscimento;
50 e non considerate ch’egli ci giova che un uomo muoia per lo popolo, e che tutta la nazione non perisca.
51 Or egli non disse questo da sè stesso; ma, essendo sommo sacerdote di quell’anno, profetizzò che Gesù morrebbe per la nazione;
52 e non solo per quella nazione, ma ancora per raccogliere in uno i figliuoli di Dio dispersi.
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