³ Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled^(A) in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,^{(B) 4} and they schemed to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him.^(C)

⁴⁹ Then one of them, named Caiaphas,^(A) who was high priest that year,^(B) spoke up, “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.”^(C)

⁵¹ He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, ⁵² and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.^{(D) 53} So from that day on they plotted to take his life.^(E)

¹⁴ Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jewish leaders that it would be good if one man died for the people.^(A)