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45 Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what He had done, believed in Him.
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Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.
46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.
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But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs.
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Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. “What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many signs.
48 "If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."
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If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.”
49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,
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Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, “You know nothing at all!
50 nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."
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You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
51 Now he did not say this on his own initiative, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,
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He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation,
52 and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
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and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.
53 So from that day on they planned together to kill Him.
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So from that day on they plotted to take his life.
54 Therefore Jesus no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.
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Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea. Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.
55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover to purify themselves.
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When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover.
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