The Plot to Kill Jesus

Many of the Jews who saw what Jesus did believe in him.

T⁴⁵herefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.

Some of them go to the Pharisees and report what Jesus had done.

⁴⁶But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

The chief priests and Pharisees gather the Sanhedrin and ask what they should do about Jesus’s many signs.

⁴⁷Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.

They fear that if Jesus continues, everyone will believe in him and the Romans will remove their place and nation.

⁴⁸If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

Caiaphas, the high priest for that year, tells them they know nothing.

⁴⁹But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

He argues that it is better for one man to die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.

⁵⁰You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”

The narrator says Caiaphas did not speak on his own, but prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation.

⁵¹Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,

The prophecy extends beyond the nation to God’s scattered children, gathered into one.

⁵²and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.

From that day on, they plot to kill him.

⁵³So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

Jesus no longer moves publicly among the Jews, but withdraws to Ephraim with the disciples.

⁵⁴As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.

The Jewish Passover is near, and many go up to Jerusalem to purify themselves.

⁵⁵Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.

People keep looking for Jesus in the temple courts and wonder whether he will come to the feast.

⁵⁶They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? Will He come to the feast at all?”

The chief priests and Pharisees order that anyone who knows where Jesus is must report it so they can seize him.

⁵⁷But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.