John 11:47-53

47So the ruling kohanim and Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. “What are we doing?” they asked. “This Man is performing 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 holy place and our nation.”

49But one of them, Caiaphas, who was kohen gadol that year, said to them, “You know nothing!

50You don’t take into account that it is better for you that one man die for the people rather than for the whole nation to be destroyed.”

51Now he did not say this by himself; but as the kohen gadol that year, he prophesied that Yeshua would die for the nation.

52And not for the nation only, but also so that He might gather together into one the scattered children of God.

53So from that day on, they plotted to kill Him.