John 11:47-57

Conspiracy to Kill Jesus

47 Therefore ¹the chief priests and the Pharisees ²convened a ³council, and were saying, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many ⁴signs.

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 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 take into account that ⁸it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."

51 Now he did not say this on his own initiative, but ⁹being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

52 and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also ¹⁰gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

53 So from that day on they ¹¹planned together to kill Him.

54 Therefore Jesus ¹²no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the wilderness, into a city called ¹³Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.

55 Now ¹⁴the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover ¹⁵to purify themselves.

56 So they ¹⁶were seeking for Jesus, and were 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 ¹⁷the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he was to report it, so that they might seize Him.

Cross References

• 1. John 7:32, 45; John 11:57
• 2. Matthew 26:3
• 3. Matthew 5:22
• 4. John 2:11
• 5. Matthew 24:15
• 6. Matthew 26:3
• 7. John 11:51; John 18:13
• 8. John 18:14
• 9. John 18:13
• 10. John 10:16
• 11. Matthew 26:4
• 12. John 7:1
• 13. 2 Chr 13:19 mg
• 14. Matthew 26:1; Mark 14:1; Luke 22:1; John 2:13; John 12:1; John 13:1
• 15. Numbers 9:10; 2 Chronicles 30:17; John 18:28
• 16. John 7:11
• 17. John 11:47

Footnotes

• [a] Or "attesting miracles"
• [b] Lit "from himself"