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If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
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But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing
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nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.
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But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;
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and not for the nation only, but that he should also gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.
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From that day therefore they took counsel that they might kill him.
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Jesus therefore walked no longer openly among the Jews, but went away thence into the country near the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and there he sojourned with the disciples.
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But the passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves.
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They sought therefore Jesus, and said among themselves, standing in the temple, What do ye think? that he will not come to the feast?
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Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment that if any one knew where he was, he should make it known, that they might take him.