John 11:47-50

AUV(i) 47 So, the leading priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council [Note: This was the Jewish governing body called “the Sanhedrin”] and said, “What should we do, for this man is performing many [miraculous] signs? 48 If we allow him to go on [doing this], everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy our Temple and our nation [i.e., its people].” 49 But a certain member of the Sanhedrin, [named] Caiaphas, who was head priest that year, said to [the rest of] them, “You do not know what you are talking about. 50 And you are not taking into consideration that it would be profitable to you for one man to die for the people, so that the entire nation would not be destroyed.”