The Plot to Kill Jesus

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Many, therefore, of the Jews who came unto Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in him;

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but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did;

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the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?

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if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'

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and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything,

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nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'

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And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation,

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

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From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him;