John 11:45-57

Christian Standard Bible

The Plot to Kill Jesus

⁴⁵ Therefore, many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he did believed in him.^{(A) 46} But some of them went to the Pharisees^(B) and told them what Jesus had done.

⁴⁷ So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin^(C) and were saying, “What are we going to do since this man is doing many signs? ⁴⁸ If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans^(D) will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

⁴⁹ One of them, Caiaphas,^(E) who was high priest^(F) that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! ⁵⁰ You’re not considering that it is to your^[a] advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.”^{(G) 51} He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die^(H) for the nation, ⁵² and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children^(I) of God. ⁵³ So from that day on they plotted to kill him.^(J)

⁵⁴ Jesus therefore no longer walked openly^(K) among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness,^(L) to a town called Ephraim, and he stayed there with the disciples.

⁵⁵ Now the Jewish Passover^(M) was near, and many went up to Jerusalem^(N) from the country to purify themselves before the Passover. ⁵⁶ They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple,^(O) “What do you think? He won’t come to the festival,^(P) will he?” ⁵⁷ The chief priests^(Q) and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it so that they could arrest him.