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45 Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what He did 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 what Jesus had done.
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But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we going to do since this man does 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 continue in this way, everybody will believe in Him! Then the Romans will come and remove 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 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 You're not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation 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 He did not say this on his own, 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 also to unite the scattered children of God.
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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 plotted to kill Him.
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So from that day on they plotted to take his life.
54 Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim. And He stayed there 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 The Jewish Passover was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country to purify themselves before the Passover.
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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.
56 They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple complex: "What do you think? He won't come to the festival, will He?"
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They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the festival at all?”
57 The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he should report it so they could arrest Him.
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But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.
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