John 11:46–54

⁴⁶But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.↗

⁴⁷The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.↗

⁴⁸If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in 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, “You know nothing at all,↗

⁵⁰nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”↗

⁵¹Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,↗

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

⁵³So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.↗

⁵⁴Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.↗