John 11:47-53

47So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and were saying, “What are we going to do since this man is doing many signs?

48If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

49One of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

50You’re not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.”

51He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

52and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children of God.

53So from that day on they plotted to kill him.