John 11:47-54

47So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs 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."

49But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all.

50Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish."

51He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

52and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

53So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.

54Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.