John 11:49 ASV

⁴⁷  The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many signs.

⁴⁸  If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.

⁴⁹  But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,

⁵⁰  nor do ye take account that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

⁵¹  Now this he said not of himself: but, being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation;