^{47 Ref} the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?

^{48 Ref} if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'

^{49 Ref} and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything,

^{50 Ref} nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'