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Plot to Kill Jesus and Caiaphas' Counsel

John 11:45-57

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45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what he did believed in him. 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Sanhedrin, and they were saying, "What do we do? This man does many signs." 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation. 49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing." 50 Nor do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people and that the whole nation not perish. 51 But he did not say this from himself. Being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. 53 From that day on, therefore, they took counsel together in order to kill him. 54 Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went away from there into the region near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there he remained with the disciples. 55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country before the Passover, in order that they might purify themselves. 56 They were looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple, they said to one another, "What do you think? Surely he won't come to the festival?" 57 But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commands that if anyone knew where he was, they should report it so that they might seize him.