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John 11:48
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.”
John 11:48 · Berean Standard Bible
John 11:48 in other translations
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.
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.”
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."
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In context
45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.
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.
48 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.”
51 Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,
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