Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
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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