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The Gospel |
| Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him; | The Plot to Kill Jesus Jn.11.45-53 Mt.26.1-5
Mk.14.1-2
Lk.22.1-2
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| but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. |
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| So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council, and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. |
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| If we let him go on thus, every one will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation." |
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| But one of them, Ca'iaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all; |
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| you do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish." |
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| He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation, |
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| and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. |
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| So from that day on they took counsel how to put him to death. |
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