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If we let him thus alone, all [men] will believe on him: and the Romans will come, and take away both our place and nation.
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And one of them, [named] Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said to them, Ye know nothing at all,
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Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
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And this he spoke not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
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And not for that nation only, but that also he should assemble in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
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Then from that day forth they took counsel together to put him to death.
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Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence to a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
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And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
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Then they sought for Jesus, and spoke among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?
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Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he was, he should show [it], that they might take him.