If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
John 11:50 - English Standard Version 2016 Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should 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, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,
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.”
It was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it would be expedient that one man should die for the people.
From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”
And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.