Joh 11:49-50 | TNotes | STEP | 11:49 Caiaphas was the ruler of the high council from AD 18–36. He worked for ten years alongside Pontius Pilate, governor of Judea ( AD 26–36; see 18:29 ), keeping the peace with Rome.

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‏ John 11:49-50

11:49 ^a Caiaphas was the ruler of the high council from AD 18–36. He worked for ten years alongside Pontius Pilate, governor of Judea (AD 26–36; see 18:29 ^b), keeping the peace with Rome.
Summary for John 11:50-51: 11:50-51 ^c it’s better ... that one man should die: Caiaphas’s words were ironic. He meant that it was better for a revolutionary to die than to have the Romans crush the entire Jewish nation. But Caiaphas was correct in a way that he could not perceive. The salvation that Judaism needed had little to do with Rome; it would come through the cross of Christ. John notes that Caiaphas’s inspiration was not his own but came from God.