John 11:49 DBY

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

⁴⁸  If we let him thus alone, all 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 to them, Ye know nothing

⁵⁰  nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.

⁵¹  But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;