the Sanhedrin. "What steps are we taking?" they asked one another;
"for this man is performing a great number of miracles.
011:048 If we leave him alone in this way, everybody will believe
in him, and the Romans will come and blot out both our city
and our nation."
011:049 But one of them, named Caiaphas, being High Priest that year,
said, "You know nothing about it.
011:050 You do not reflect that it is to your interest that one man
should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish."
011:051 It was not as a mere man that he thus spoke. But being
High Priest that year he was inspired to declare that Jesus
was to die for the nation,
011:052 and not for the nation only, but in order to unite into one
body all the far-scattered children of God.
011:053 So from that day forward they planned and schemed in order
to put Him to death.
011:054 Therefore Jesus no longer went about openly among the Jews,
but He left that neighbourhood and went into the district
near the Desert, to a town called Ephraim, and remained there
with the disciples.
011:055 The Jewish Passover was coming near, and many from that district
went up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
011:056 They therefore looked out for Jesus, and asked one another
as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think?--will he come
to the Festival at all?"
011:057 Now the High Priests and the Pharisees had issued orders
that if any one knew where He was, he should give information,
so that they might arrest Him.
012:001 Jesus, however, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany,
where Lazarus was whom He had raised from the dead.