^{47 Ref} The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

^{48 Ref} 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."

^{49 Ref} But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,

^{50 Ref} 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."

^{51 Ref} Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

^{52 Ref} and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

^{53 Ref} So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.