John 11:45-57 - The Jewish Leaders Plot To Kill Jesus
45 Many, therefore, of the Jews who came to Mary and beheld what He did, believed on Him; 46 but some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did.
47 The high priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? because This Man is doing many signs. 48 If we let Him thus alone, all will believe on Him; and the Romans will come, and take away both our place and our nation.
49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said, "Ye know nothing at all; 50 nor do ye consider that it is expedient for you, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not." 51 And this he said not of himself; but, being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for that nation; 52 and not for that nation only, but that He might also gather together into one the children of God that are scattered abroad. 53 From that day, therefore, they took counsel, that they might put Him to death. 54 Jesus, therefore, was no longer openly walking about among the Jews; but He went away thence into the country near to the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there He abode with the disciples.
55 Now the passover of the Jews was near; and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves. 56 They were, therefore, seeking for Jesus, and were saying one with another, while standing in the temple, "What think ye? That He will not come to the feast?" 57 Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders, that, if any one knew where He was, he should show it, that they might seize Him.