John 11:50

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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.”

Cross References

Matthew 5:29

If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

Luke 24:46

and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,

John 11:48

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.”

John 18:14

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

John 19:12

Upon this Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend; every one who makes himself a king sets himself against Caesar.”

Romans 3:8

And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.