⁵⁰ Nor do you understand that ^(A)it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.”

¹⁴ It was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews ^(A)that it would be expedient that one man should die for the people.

⁴⁶ and said to them, “Thus ^(A)it is written, ^(B)that the Christ should suffer and on the third day ^(C)rise from the dead,

⁸ And why not ^(A)do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.

¹² From then on ^(A)Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. ^(B)Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”

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