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John 11:51
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49 And one of them, aCaiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,  
50 anor do you consider that it is expedient for1 us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.”  
51 Now this he did not say on his own authority; but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
52 and anot for that nation only, but balso that He would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.  
53 Then, from that day on, they plotted to aput Him to death.  
54 aTherefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called bEphraim, and there remained with His disciples.  
55 aAnd the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went from the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to bpurify themselves.  
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John 11:51

Not of himself (af eautou ouk). Not wholly of himself, John means. There was more in what Caiaphas said than he understood. His language is repeated in John 18:14.

Prophesied (eprofhteusen). Aorist active indicative of profhteuw. But certainly unconscious prophecy on his part and purely accidental. Caiaphas meant only what was mean and selfish.

That Jesus should die (oti emellen Ihsouv apoqnhskein). Imperfect active of mellw in indirect discourse instead of the usual present retained after a secondary tense (eprofhteusen) as sometimes occurs (see John 2:25).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 11:51:

Luke 19:47
John 4:47
John 18:35

 

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