web - John:11:45-57

web@John:11:45 @ Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him.

web@John:11:46 @ But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.

web@John:11:47 @ The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

web@John:11:48 @ If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."

web@John:11:49 @ But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,

web@John:11:50 @ nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."

web@John:11:51 @ Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

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

web@John:11:53 @ So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

web@John:11:54 @ Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

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

web@John:11:56 @ Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think--that he isn't coming to the feast at all?"

web@John:11:57 @ Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.