NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 47

John 11:47

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The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

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John 11:44–50

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He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.

Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go.”

45

Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.

46

But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.

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The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

48

If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

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But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,

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nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”

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