45Many of the Jews therefore came to Mary and saw what he had done, and they trusted in him.46Some of them then went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.47So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council and said, "What are we to do, since this man is performing many signs?"48If we let him go on like this, everyone will trust in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.49Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all."50Nor do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish.51He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation.52And not for the nation only, but also that he might gather into one the scattered children of God.53So from that day they planned to kill him.54Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but departed from there to the country near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.55Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country before the Passover to purify themselves.56They were seeking Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?"57Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, so that they might arrest him.