45. Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what Jesus had done, believed in Him.
46. But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled the Sanhedrin and said, “What shall we do? This Man is performing many signs.
48. If we leave Him alone like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.”
49. Then one of them named Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
50. nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, that the whole nation should not perish.”
51. He did not say this on his own authority. But being the high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
52. and not for the nation only, but that He might also gather together in unity the children of God who were scattered abroad.
53. So from that day forward they planned to put Him to death.
54. Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and remained there with His disciples.