John:11:45-57
isv@John:11:45 @ Many of the Jews who had come with Mary and had observed what Jesus did believed in him.
isv@John:11:46 @ Some of them, however, went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
isv@John:11:47 @ So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, “What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.
isv@John:11:48 @ If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our temple and our nation.”
isv@John:11:49 @ But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, told them, “You don't know anything!
isv@John:11:50 @ You don't realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed.”
isv@John:11:51 @ Now he did not say this on his own initiative. As high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
isv@John:11:52 @ and not only for the nation, but that he would also gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.
isv@John:11:53 @ So from that day on they resolved to put him to death.
isv@John:11:54 @ As a result, Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews. Instead, he went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness. There he remained with his disciples.
isv@John:11:55 @ Now the Jewish Passover was approaching, and before the Passover many people from the countryside went up to Jerusalem to purify themselves.
isv@John:11:56 @ They kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? Surely he won't come to the festival, will he?”
isv@John:11:57 @ Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that whoever knew where he was should tell them so that they could arrest him.
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