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John 11:47

Therefore the High Priests and the Pharisees held a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "What steps are we taking?" they asked one another; "for this man is performing a great number of miracles.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.

In Context

46though some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them what He had done.

48If we leave him alone in this way, everybody will believe in him, and the Romans will come and blot out both our city and our nation."

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Cross References

Matthew 26:3Then the High Priests and Elders of the People assembled in the court of the palace of the High Priest Caiaphas,

Mark 14:1It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the High Priests and Scribes were bent on finding how to seize Him by stratagem and put Him to death.

John 2:11This, the first of His miracles, Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and thus displayed His glorious power; and His disciples believed in Him.

John 12:19The result was that the Pharisees said among themselves, "Observe how idle all your efforts are! The world is gone after him!"

Acts 4:16"What are we to do with these men?" they asked one another; for the fact that a remarkable miracle has been performed by them is well known to every one in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

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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