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John 11
⁴⁴ And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound in graveclothes, his face wrapped in a headcloth. Jesus told them, “Unwrap him and let him go!”
⁴⁵ Many of the people who were with Mary believed in Jesus when they saw this happen.
⁴⁶ But some went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
⁴⁷ Then the leading priests and Pharisees called the high council together. “What are we going to do?” they asked each other. “This man certainly performs many miraculous signs.
⁴⁸ If we allow him to go on like this, soon everyone will believe in him. Then the Roman army will come and destroy both our Temple and our nation.”
⁴⁹ Caiaphas, who was high priest at that time, said, “You don’t know what you’re talking about!
⁵⁰ You don’t realize that it’s better for you that one man should die for the people than for the whole nation to be destroyed.”
⁵¹ He did not say this on his own; as high priest at that time he was led to prophesy that Jesus would die for the entire nation.
⁵² And not only for that nation, but to bring together and unite all the children of God scattered around the world.
⁵³ So from that time on, the Jewish leaders began to plot Jesus’ death.
⁵⁴ As a result, Jesus stopped his public ministry among the people and left Jerusalem. He went to a place near the wilderness, to the village of Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.