John 11:50

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

"You are utterly mistaken. You do not consider that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, rather than the whole nation should be destroyed."

Cross References

Matthew 5:29

If your right eye is a snare to you, take it out and throw it away. It would be best for you to lose one part of your body, and not to have the whole of it thrown into the Pit.

Luke 24:46

"Scripture says that the Christ should suffer, and that he should rise again from the dead on the third day,

John 11:48

If we let him alone as we are doing, every one will believe in him; and the Romans will come and will take from us both our City and our Nationality."

John 18:14

It was Caiaphas who had counseled the Jews, that it was best that one man should die for the people.

John 19:12

This made Pilate anxious to release him; but the Jews shouted: "If you release that man, you are no friend of the Emperor! Any one who makes himself out to be a King is setting himself against the Emperor!"

Romans 3:8

Why should we not say-as some people slanderously assert that we do say-'Let us do evil that good may come'? The condemnation of such men is indeed just!