John 11:48-56

⁴⁸If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.

⁴⁹But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing

⁵⁰nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.

⁵¹But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;

⁵²and not for the nation only, but that he should also gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

⁵³From that day therefore they took counsel that they might kill him.

⁵⁴Jesus therefore walked no longer openly among the Jews, but went away thence into the country near the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and there he sojourned with the disciples.

⁵⁵But the passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves.

⁵⁶They sought therefore Jesus, and said among themselves, standing in the temple, What do ye think? that he will not come to the feast?