John 11:50

nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.”

English Majority Text (NT)

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

49But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You don't know anything,

51Now this he did not say on his own, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation,

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Cross References

Luke 24:46Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

John 18:14Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was profitable for one man to perish for the people. 1 Peter Denies Jesus

Romans 3:8And why not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come”?—just as we are slandered, and just as some affirm that we say. The judgment of whom is just. 1 All Have Sinned

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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