John 11:48-56

⁴⁸If we leave him alone like this, all will believe in him; the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

⁴⁹However, a certain man among them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing.

⁵⁰You do not consider that it is better for you that one man dies for the people than that the whole nation perishes.”

⁵¹Now this he said not from himself. Instead, being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation;

⁵²and not only for the nation, but so that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered together into one.

⁵³So from that day onward they planned how to put Jesus to death.

⁵⁴No longer did Jesus walk openly among the Jews, but he departed from there into the country near to the wilderness into a town called Ephraim. There he stayed with the disciples.

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

⁵⁶They were looking for Jesus, and speaking one with another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? That he will not come to the festival?”