Juan 18:14

14 Caifás era el que les había dicho a los otros líderes judíos: «Es mejor que muera un solo hombre por el pueblo».

Juan 18:14 Meaning and Commentary

John 18:14

Now Caiaphas was he which gave council to the Jews
The chief priests and Pharisees, who met in council about Jesus, ( John 11:47-52 ) , the counsel he gave was,

that it was expedient that one man should die for the people;
and which advice was given out of ill will and malice to Christ, and to prevent, as he thought, the people of the Jews being destroyed by the Romans; though the words have a very good sense which he did not understand. The people Christ was to die for, was not all the, people of the world, nor only the people of the Jews, nor all of them; but all the elect of God, whom God has chosen for his special and peculiar people, and has given to Christ as such: these Christ were to die for, and did, not merely as a martyr, to confirm his doctrine to them, or as an example to teach them meekness, patience, and courage, but in the room and stead of them, as a surety for them; and it was expedient that he should, in such sense, die for them, because of his suretyship engagements, that he might make satisfaction to the law and justice of God, and procure the salvation of his people, and send forth the Spirit to make application of it to them.

Juan 18:14 In-Context

12 Jesús en la casa del sumo sacerdote
Así que los soldados, el oficial que los comandaba y los guardias del templo arrestaron a Jesús y lo ataron.

13 Primero lo llevaron ante Anás, el suegro de Caifás, quien era sumo sacerdote en ese momento.

14 Caifás era el que les había dicho a los otros líderes judíos: «Es mejor que muera un solo hombre por el pueblo».

15 Primera negación de Pedro
Simón Pedro y otro discípulo siguieron a Jesús. Ese otro discípulo conocía al sumo sacerdote, así que le permitieron entrar con Jesús al patio del sumo sacerdote.

16 Pedro tuvo que quedarse afuera, junto a la puerta. Entonces el discípulo que conocía al sumo sacerdote habló con la mujer que cuidaba la puerta, y ella dejó entrar a Pedro.