John 11:46-57

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

47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees ¹gathered ²the Council and said, ³"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 ⁴the Romans will come and take away both our ⁵place and our nation."

49 But one of them, ⁶Caiaphas, ⁷who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all.

50 Nor do you understand that ⁸it 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 ⁹being high priest that year ¹⁰he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

52 and ¹¹not for the nation only, but also ¹²to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

53 So from that day on they ¹³made plans to put him to death.

54 Jesus therefore ¹⁴no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.

55 Now ¹⁵the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and ¹⁶many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover ¹⁷to purify themselves.

56 ¹⁸They were looking for^[a] Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast at all?"

57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

Cross References

• 1. See Matthew 26:3
• 2. See Matthew 5:22
• 3. John 12:19; [Acts 4:16]
• 4. [John 6:15; John 18:36, 37]
• 5. Acts 21:28
• 6. See Matthew 26:3
• 7. ver. 51; John 18:13
• 8. John 18:14
• 9. ver. 49
• 10. [Exodus 28:30; Numbers 27:21; 1 Samuel 23:9; 1 Samuel 30:7; Ezra 2:63; Nehemiah 7:65]
• 11. Isaiah 49:6; 1 John 2:2
• 12. See John 10:16
• 13. See John 7:1
• 14. John 7:1, 4
• 15. See John 6:4
• 16. Luke 2:42
• 17. 2 Chronicles 30:17, 18; [John 18:28; Acts 21:24]
• 18. See John 7:11

Footnotes

• [a]. Greek were seeking for