A moment in scripture
John 11:50
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Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
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The surrounding passage
- John 11:48
If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
- John 11:49
And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
- John 11:51
And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
- John 11:52
And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.