John 11:50
Neither do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
49But one of them, named Caiphas, being the high priest that year, said to them: You know nothing.
Cross References
Luke 24:46And he said to them: Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise again from the dead, the third day:
John 18:14Now Caiphas was he who had given the counsel to the Jews: That it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
Romans 3:8And not rather (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil, that there may come good? whose damnation 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 →