John 12:10 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁰ So the high priests planned to kill Lazarus as well,

³ The news of this troubled king Herod and all Jerusalem as well; ⁴ so he gathered all the high priests and scribes of the people and made inquiries of them about where the messiah was to be born. ⁵ They told him, "In Bethlehem belonging to Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet: ⁶ And you Bethlehem, in Judah's land, You are not least among the rulers of Judah: For a ruler will come from you, Who will shepherd Israel my people." ⁷ Then Herod summoned the magicians in secret and ascertained from them the time of the star's appearance. ⁸ He also sent them to Bethlehem, telling them, "Go and make a careful search for the child, and when you have found him report to me, so that I may go and worship him too."

¹⁶ Then Herod saw the magicians had trifled with him, and he was furiously angry; he sent and slew all the male children in Bethlehem and in all the neighbourhood who were two years old or under, calculating by the time he had ascertained from the magicians.

³¹ He said to him, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced, not even if one rose from the dead."

⁴⁷ whereupon the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "Whatever is to be done?" they said. "The fellow is performing a number of Signs. ⁴⁸ If we let him alone, like this, everybody will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and suppress our holy Place and our nation." ⁴⁹ But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, "You know nothing about it — ⁵⁰ you do not understand it is in your own interests that one man should die for the People, instead of the whole nation being destroyed." ⁵¹ (He did not say this simply of his own accord; he was high priest that year, and his words were a prophecy that Jesus was to die for the nation, ⁵² and not merely for the nation but to gather into one the scattered children of God.) ⁵³ So from that day their plan was to kill him.

⁵⁷ (The high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that they were to be informed, if anyone found out where he was, so that they might arrest him.)