Bible verse
Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
John 11:47 · BSB
The verses around it, from John 11.
43 After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44 The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.
45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.
46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
48 If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
49 But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!
50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
51 Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,
KJV
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
ASV
The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many signs.
ERV
The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many signs.
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