The Plot to Kill Jesus

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Then many of the Iewes, which came to Mary, and had seene the thinges, which Iesus did, beleeued in him.

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But some of them went their way to the Pharises, and told them what things Iesus had done.

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Then gathered the hie Priests, and the Pharises a councill, and said, What shall we doe? For this man doeth many miracles.

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If we let him thus alone, all men will beleeue in him, and the Romanes will come and take away both our place, and the nation.

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Then one of them named Caiaphas, which was the hie Priest that same yere, said vnto them, Ye perceiue nothing at all,

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Nor yet doe you consider that it is expedient for vs, that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

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This spake hee not of himselfe: but being hie Priest that same yere, he prophecied that Iesus should die for that nation:

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And not for that nation onely, but that he shoulde gather together in one the children of God, which were scattered.

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Then from that day foorth they consulted together, to put him to death.