John 11:50

Catholic Public Domain Version

Nor do you realize that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the entire nation should not perish."

Cross References

Matthew 5:29

And if your right eye causes you to sin, root it out and cast it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than that your whole body be cast into Hell.

Luke 24:46

And he said to them: "For so it is written, and so it was necessary, for the Christ to suffer and to rise up from the dead on the third day,

John 11:48

If we leave him alone, in this way all will believe in him. And then the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation."

John 18:14

Now Caiaphas was the one who had given counsel to the Jews that it was expedient for one man to die for the people.

John 19:12

And from then on, Pilate was seeking to release him. But the Jews were crying out, saying: "If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar. For anyone who makes himself a king contradicts Caesar."

Romans 3:8

And should we not do evil, so that good may result? For so we have been slandered, and so some have claimed we said; their condemnation is just.