John 11:53
So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
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John 11:53
So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
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John 11:54
Jesus 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.
John 11:55
Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
John 11:56
Then they sought for Jesus and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?”
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John 11:47
The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
John 11:48
If 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.”
John 11:49
But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
John 11:50
nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”
John 11:51
Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
John 11:52
and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
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Matthew 26:3
Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
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