John 11:47-52
47So the chief priests and the Pharisees agathered bthe council and said, c“What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. 48If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and dthe Romans will come and take away both our eplace and our nation.” 49But one of them, fCaiaphas, gwho was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. 50Nor do you understand that hit is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.” 51He did not say this of his own accord, but ibeing high priest that year jhe prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52and knot for the nation only, but also lto gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.John 12:23-24
23And Jesus answered them, m“The hour has come nfor the Son of Man to be glorified. 24Truly, truly, I say to you, ounless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.1 Peter 3:17-18
17For pit is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.18For Christ also qsuffered ▼
▼Some manuscripts died
sonce for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, tthat he might bring us to God, being put to death uin the flesh but made alive vin the spirit,
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