World English Bible

John 11:51

“Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,”

Verse in context — John 11

But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,

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.

Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

A theological portrait of Jesus as the Son of God who brings eternal life.