46. but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47. The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many signs.
48. If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
49. But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing
50. nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.
51. But this he did not say of himself; but, being high priest that year, prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;