World English Bible
John 11:48
“If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
Verse in context — John 11
46
But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.
47
The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does 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 place and our nation.
49
But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,
50
nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.
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