47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the ruling council. "What shall we do?" they asked. "This man is doing many miracles. 48 If we allow him to continue, everybody will believe in him, and then the Romans will destroy both the Temple and our status as a nation."11:48. Literally, "the place and the nation."
49 "You don’t understand anything!" said Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. 50 "Can’t you see that it’s better for you that one man die for the people so that the whole nation won’t be destroyed?"