The Council Responds

45Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen what he had done believed in him.

46But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

47So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is doing many signs.”

48If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.

49But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all.”

50Nor do you consider that it is better for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.

51He did not say this from himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

52and not for the nation only, but also so that he might gather into one the scattered children of God.

53So from that day on they planned to kill him.