47. So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.
48. If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary and our nation.”
49. Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, “You know nothing at all!
50. You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.”