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So the Pharisees and the chief priests
met with the Council and said:
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"What shall we do?"
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Look at all the miracles
this man is performing!
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If we let him go on in this way,
everyone will believe in him...
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and the Roman authorities will take action
and destroy our temple and our nation!
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One of them, named Caiaphas,
who was High Priest that year, said:
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What fools you are!
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Don't you realize...
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that it is better for you
to have let one man die for the people...
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instead of having
the whole nation destroyed?
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Actually, he did not say this
of his own accord.
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Rather, as he was High Priest that year...
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he was prophesying that Jesus
was going to die for the Jewish people...
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and not only for them,
but also to bring together into one body...
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all the scattered people of God.
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From that day on, the Jewish authorities
made plans to kill Jesus.
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So Jesus did not travel openly in Judea, but
left, and went to a place near the desert...
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to a town named Ephraim,
where he stayed with his disciples.
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The time for the Passover Festival
was near...
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and many people went up from the country
to Jerusalem...
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to perform the ritual of purification
before the festival.
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They were looking for Jesus...
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and as they gathered in the Temple,
they asked one another:
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"What do you think? Surely, he will not
come to the Festival, will he?"
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The chief priests and the Pharisees
had given orders...
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that if anyone knew where Jesus was,
he must report it...
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so that they could arrest him.