John 11:48-50

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁴⁸ If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place^[a] and our nation.’ ⁴⁹ But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, ‘You know nothing at all! ⁵⁰ You do not understand that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed.’