Gospel: John 11:45-56

⁴⁵ Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him;
⁴⁶ but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
⁴⁷ So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council, and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.
⁴⁸ If we let him go on thus, every one will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation.”
⁴⁹ But one of them, Ca’iaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all;
⁵⁰ you do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish.”
⁵¹ He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation,
⁵² and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
⁵³ So from that day on they took counsel how to put him to death.
⁵⁴ Jesus therefore no longer went about openly among the Jews, but went from there to the country near the wilderness, to a town called E’phraim; and there he stayed with the disciples.
⁵⁵ Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
⁵⁶ They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?”