John 11:50

Weymouth NT

You do not reflect that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.«

Cross References

Matthew 5:29

If therefore your eye, even the right eye, is a snare to you, tear it out and away with it; it is better for you that one member should be destroyed rather than that your whole body should be thrown into Gehenna.

Luke 24:46

and He said, »Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and on the third day rise again from among the dead;

John 11:48

If we leave him alone in this way, everybody will believe in him, and the Romans will come and blot out both our city and our nation.«

John 18:14

(It was this Caiaphas who had advised the Jews, saying, »It is to your interest that one man should die for the People.«)

John 19:12

Upon receiving this answer, Pilate was for releasing Him. But the Jews kept shouting, »If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar's. Every one who sets himself up as king declares himself a rebel against Caesar.«

Romans 3:8

And why should we not say –for so they wickedly misrepresent us, and so some charge us with arguing– »Let us do evil that good may come«? The condemnation of those who would so argue is just.