John 11:45-53

Listen to John 11:45-53

45 ¹Many of the Jews therefore, ²who had come with Mary and ³had seen what he did, believed in him,

46 but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees ⁴gathered ⁵the council and said, ⁶“What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.

48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and ⁷the Romans will come and take away both our ⁸place and our nation. ”

49 But one of them, ⁹Caiaphas, ¹⁰who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all.

50 Nor do you understand that ¹¹it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish. ”

51 He did not say this of his own accord, but ¹²being high priest that year ¹³he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

52 and ¹⁴not for the nation only, but also ¹⁵to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

53 So from that day on they ¹⁶made plans to put him to death.

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