² And the chief priests and the scribes ^(A)were seeking how to put him to death, for they feared the people.

⁴⁷ So the chief priests and the Pharisees ^(A)gathered ^(B)the council and said, ^(C)“What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. ⁴⁸ If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and ^(D)the Romans will come and take away both our ^(E)place and our nation.” ⁴⁹ But one of them, ^(F)Caiaphas, ^(G)who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. ⁵⁰ Nor do you understand that ^(H)it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.” ⁵¹ He did not say this of his own accord, but ^(I)being high priest that year ^(J)he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, ⁵² and ^(K)not for the nation only, but also ^(L)to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. ⁵³ So from that day on they ^(M)made plans to put him to death.

⁵⁷ Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

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^19 (A)The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.

^47 (A)And he was teaching daily in the temple. ^(B)The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, ⁴⁸ but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.

^3 (A)Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in ^(B)the palace of the high priest, whose name was ^(C)Caiaphas, ^4 (D)and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. ⁵ But they said, “Not during the feast, ^(E)lest there be an uproar among the people.”

⁴⁵ When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them. ⁴⁶ And ^(A)although they were seeking to arrest him, ^(B)they feared the crowds, because they held him to be ^(C)a prophet.

¹⁴ But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.

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