John 11 47-57 47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. “What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many signs. 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.” 49 Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, “You know nothing at all! 50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.” 51 He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, 52 and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one. 53 So from that day on they plotted to take his life. 54 Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea. Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples. 55 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover. 56 They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the festival at all?” 57 But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.
Here we see that the chief priests and the Pharisees knew that the Lord Jesus performed many miracles, not only did they not believe, but they were looking for countermeasures. They said, “If we let him go like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take our land and our people.” At that time, the Jews were under the Romans’ rule, if everyone believed in Jesus, they thought that this was a threat to the Romans’ rule, and the Romans would take action against them. There was a man named Caiaphas, the high priest of that year said to them, “You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.” As the high priest, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, and he didn’t prophecy on purpose, they did not know that the death of the Lord Jesus was to save the Israelites and the world. They wanted to put the Lord Jesus to death so that the Romans would not come to destroy them. So they plot to kill Jesus. The Lord Jesus knew everything, so he did not walk openly among the Jews, but was with the disciples in a village called Ephraim near the wilderness, not that he was afraid, but his time had not yet come. Hope that many people will believe in the Lord because of many miracles He performed and know His love for us, his death on the cross for the salvation of mankind.
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