John 11:52

John 11:52

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.

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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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But that he might also gather together into one (all ina sunagagh eiv en). Purpose clause with ina and the second aorist active subjunctive of sunagw. Caiaphas was thinking only of the Jewish people (laou, eqnov, verse John 11:50). The explanation and interpretation of John here follow the lead of the words of Jesus about the other sheep and the one flock in John 10:16.

That are scattered abroad (ta dieskorpismena). Perfect passive articular participle of diaskorpizw, late verb (Polybius, LXX) to scatter apart, to winnow grain from chaff, only here in John. The meaning here is not the Diaspora (Jews scattered over the world), but the potential children of God in all lands and all ages that the death of Christ will gather "into one" (eiv en). A glorious idea, but far beyond Caiaphas.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 11:52:**

Luke 19:47
John 1:12
John 10:16
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