Bible verse

John 11:49

But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

John 11:49 · BSB

John 11:49 in context

The verses around it, from John 11.

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,

52 and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.

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

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John 11:49 in other translations

KJV

And one of them, [named] Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,

ASV

But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,

ERV

But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,

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