John 11:47-53

Riverside(i) 47 So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we doing? for this man is doing many signs. 48 If we let him alone in this way, all will believe in him and the Romans will come and destroy our place and nation." 49 One of them, Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said to them, "You do not know anything 50 nor do you reason that it is better for you that one man should die for the people and so the whole nation escape destruction." 51 He did not say this of himself, but being High Priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God now scattered far and wide. 53 From that day they plotted to kill him.