John 11:50

Nor do you realize that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the entire nation should not perish.”

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In The King James Version

Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

In Context

49Then one of them, named Caiaphas, since he was the high priest that year, said to them: “You do not understand anything.

51Yet he did not say this from himself, but since he was the high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation.

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Cross References

Luke 24:46And he said to them: “For so it is written, and so it was necessary, for the Christ to suffer and to rise up from the dead on the third day,

John 18:14Now Caiaphas was the one who had given counsel to the Jews that it was expedient for one man to die for the people.

Romans 3:8And should we not do evil, so that good may result? For so we have been slandered, and so some have claimed we said; their condemnation is just.

Matthew Henry on John 11:46-57

The Consultation of the Pharisees; The Prophecy of Caiaphas; A Conspiracy against Christ. 45 Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him. 46 But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done. 47 Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. 48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our… Read the whole commentary →

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