Daily Discovery Bible Study

47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the ruling council. “What shall we do?” they asked. “This man is doing many miracles.48 If we allow him to continue, everybody will believe in him, and then the Romans will destroy both the Temple and our status as a nation.”

49 “You don't understand anything!” said Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.50 “Can't you see that it's better for you that one man die for the people so that the whole nation won't be destroyed?”51 He didn't say this on his own behalf, but as chief priest that year he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation.52 And this was not just for the Jewish nation, but for all the scattered children of God so that they might be gathered together and be made into one.

53 From that time on they made plans as to how they might kill Jesus.54 So Jesus did not travel openly among the Jews but went to a town called Ephraim in the region near the desert and stayed there with his disciples.

John 11: 47-54