mnt - John:11:45-57

mnt@John:11:45 @ Many of the Jews, therefore, who had come with Mary, and had seen what he did, believed on him;

mnt@John:11:46 @ but some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

mnt@John:11:47 @ So the chief priests and Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.

mnt@John:11:48 @ "What are we going to do?" they said, "now that this man is performing many signs?" If we leave him alone, this way, every one will believe on him, and the Romans will come and rob us of both our sacred place and of our people."

mnt@John:11:49 @ But one of their number, Caiaphas by name, who was high priest that year, said to them,

mnt@John:11:50 @ "You know nothing at all, nor do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, rather than the whole nation be destroyed."

mnt@John:11:51 @ now he did not say this of his own accord; but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die in behalf of the nation,

mnt@John:11:52 @ and not in behalf of the nation alone, but in order that he might gather into one the widely scattered children of God.

mnt@John:11:53 @ So from that day they plotted to kill him.

mnt@John:11:54 @ Jesus therefore no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went away from there into the region near the desert to a town called Ephraim,

mnt@John:11:55 @ and there remained with his disciples. Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem for purification before the Passover.

mnt@John:11:56 @ So they kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another, as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think - that he will not come to the feast at all?"

mnt@John:11:57 @ Now the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that if any one knew where he was. he should give information, so that they might arrest him.