If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehinnom.
John 11:50 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not 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 stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehinnom.
He said to them, *Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Messiah to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.*
Now it was Kayafa who advised the Judeans that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.
At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Judeans cried out, saying, *If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!*
Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), *Let us do evil, that good may come?* Those who say so are justly condemned.