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the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?
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if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'
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and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything,
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nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'
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And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation,
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and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.
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From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him;
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Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples.
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And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;
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they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, `What doth appear to you -- that he may not come to the feast?'
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and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew [it], so that they may seize him.