John 11:47-53

Thomson(i) 47 Whereupon the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled the Sanhedrim, and said, What are we doing? Because this man doth many miracles, 48 if we let him go on thus, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both this place and this nation of ours. 49 And one of them, namely, Caiaphas, being chief priest that year, said to them, Are you totally ignorant, 50 and do you not consider that it is better for us that one man die for the people than that the whole nation should perish. 51 Now this he said not merely of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was soon to die for that nation, 52 and not for that nation only, but that he might gather into one body the children of God who were scattered abroad. 53 From that day therefore they consulted together that they might put him to death.