John 11:48-56

⁴⁸If 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.”

⁴⁹Then a certain one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, told them, “You don’t know anything,

⁵⁰nor do you take into account that it’s better for you that one man should die for the people, than for the whole nation to perish.”

⁵¹He didn’t say this on his own initiative; but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

⁵²and not for the nation only, but that Jesus might also gather together into one God’s children who are scattered abroad.

⁵³So from that day on, they planned together to kill Jesus.

⁵⁴Therefore Jesus stopped walking publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there He stayed with the disciples.

⁵⁵Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went from the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

⁵⁶Then they were looking for Jesus, and spoke among themselves as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? Isn’t He coming to the feast at all?”