⁵⁰ You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction.

¹⁴ It was Caiaphas who had said to the Jews that it was in their interest for one man to be put to death for the people.

⁴⁶ And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day;

⁴⁸ If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation.

¹² Hearing this, Pilate had a desire to let him go free, but the Jews said in a loud voice, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: everyone who makes himself a king goes against Caesar.

⁸ Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.