If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
John 11:50 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised You’re not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Nor do you understand or reason out that it is expedient and better for your own welfare that one man should die on behalf of the people than that the whole nation should perish (be destroyed, ruined). American Standard Version (1901) nor do ye take account that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. Common English Bible You don’t see that it is better for you that one man die for the people rather than the whole nation be destroyed.” 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." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Neither do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. |
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
He also said to them, ‘This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead the third day,
If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.’
Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it would be better for one man to die for the people.
From that moment Pilate kept trying to release him. But the Jews shouted, ‘If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar! ’
And why not say, just as some people slanderously claim we say, ‘Let us do what is evil so that good may come’? Their condemnation is deserved!