tcent - John:11:45-57

tcent@John:11:45 @ Many of the Jews therefore, who had come to Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.

tcent@John:11:46 @ But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

tcent@John:11:47 @ Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, »What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.

tcent@John:11:48 @ If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.«

tcent@John:11:49 @ But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, »You know nothing at all!

tcent@John:11:50 @ You do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.«

tcent@John:11:51 @ He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

tcent@John:11:52 @ and not for that nation only, but also that he would gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

tcent@John:11:53 @ So from that day on they plotted to put him to death.

tcent@John:11:54 @ Jesus therefore no longer went about openly among the Jews, but went from there to the country near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim; and there he stayed with his disciples.

tcent@John:11:55 @ Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went from the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

tcent@John:11:56 @ They were 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?«

tcent@John:11:57 @ Now 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.