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John 11
⁴⁴ The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus *said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."
⁴⁵ Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what He had done, believed in Him.
⁴⁶ But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.
⁴⁷ Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs.
⁴⁸ If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."
⁴⁹ But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,
⁵⁰ nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."
⁵¹ Now he did not say this on his own initiative, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,
⁵² and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
⁵³ So from that day on they planned together to kill Him.
⁵⁴ Therefore Jesus no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.