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John 11:48-50
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
John 11:48-50
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
48 If we let him go on thus, every one will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place[a] and our nation.” 49 But one of them, Ca′iaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all; 50 you do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish.”[b]
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- John 11:48 Greek our place
- 11.50 Caiaphas agreed that, as Jesus was not (in their opinion) the Messiah, any popular insurrection now could end only in disaster; so it was better, he argued, to do away with him. He was unconscious of the deeper meaning of his words, namely that Jesus must die for the salvation of man.
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