48. If we let him continue what he’s doing, everyone will believe in him. Then the Romans will take away our position and our nation.”
49. One of them, Caiaphas, who was chief priest that year, told them, “You people don’t know anything.
50. You haven’t even considered this: It is better for one man to die for the people than for the whole nation to be destroyed.”
51. Caiaphas didn’t say this on his own. As chief priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation.