John 11:48

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.

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.”

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: 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.”
KJV: 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.
WEB: If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
ASV: If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
DARBY: If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
BLB: If we shall let Him alone like this, all will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and will take away both our place and nation.”

ÅB: Lar vi ham holde ved slik, da vil alle tro på ham, og romerne vil komme og ta både vårt sted og vårt folk.
OTB: Hvis vi lar Ham fortsette, vil alle tro på Ham, og da vil romerne komme og ta bort både vårt tempel og vår nasjon."
B1930: Lar vi ham holde ved således, da vil alle tro på ham, og romerne vil komme og ta både vårt sted og vårt folk.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

1 Thessalonians 2:15–16
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
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Daniel 9:26–27
Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
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Matthew 23:35–38
And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
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Zechariah 14:1–2
Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.
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Matthew 27:25
All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
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Acts 5:28
“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”
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Matthew 22:7
The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
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Luke 23:28–31
But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
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