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John 11
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.
⁵⁵ Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover to purify themselves.
⁵⁶ So they were seeking for Jesus, and were saying to one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think; that He will not come to the feast at all?"
⁵⁷ Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he was to report it, so that they might seize Him.