John:11:45-57
riversident@John:11:45 @ Many of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen what Jesus did believed in him.
riversident@John:11:46 @ But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
riversident@John:11:47 @ So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we doing? for this man is doing many signs.
riversident@John:11:48 @ If we let him alone in this way, all will believe in him and the Romans will come and destroy our place and nation."
riversident@John:11:49 @ One of them, Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said to them, "You do not know anything
riversident@John:11:50 @ nor do you reason that it is better for you that one man should die for the people and so the whole nation escape destruction."
riversident@John:11:51 @ He did not say this of himself, but being High Priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation,
riversident@John:11:52 @ and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God now scattered far and wide.
riversident@John:11:53 @ From that day they plotted to kill him.
riversident@John:11:54 @ So Jesus no more walked about openly among the Jews, but went away from there into the country near the wild lands, to a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with his disciples.
riversident@John:11:55 @ The Passover of the Jews was near and many went up to Jerusalem from the country before the Passover to purify themselves.
riversident@John:11:56 @ They were looking for Jesus and were saying to one another, as they stood in the Temple courts, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?"
riversident@John:11:57 @ The high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that, if any one knew where he was, he should report it so that they might arrest him.
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