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John 11:49-50
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
John 11:49-50
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
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.”[a]
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- 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.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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