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John 11:49-51
New Catholic Bible
John 11:49-51
New Catholic Bible
49 However, one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year,[a] said to them, “You know nothing at all. 50 You do not seem to realize that it is better for us that one man die for the people rather than the whole nation be destroyed.”
51 He did not say this on his own, but as the high priest that year he was prophesying that Jesus was to die for the nation,
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- John 11:49 That year: i.e., at that time. The Jews believed that the high priest possessed a gift of prophecy, which was at times unknowingly carried out (see v. 51).
