The Plot to Kill Jesus^(A)

26 When Jesus had finished all these sayings, He said to His disciples, ² “You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to be crucified.”

³ Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, ⁴ and took counsel that they might take Jesus covertly and kill Him. ⁵ But they said, “Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.”

The Plot to Kill Jesus^(A)

22 Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, drew near. ² And the chief priests and scribes were seeking how to kill Jesus, for they feared the people.

The Plot to Kill Jesus^(A)

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.