Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.”
It was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it would be expedient that one man should die for the people.
and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,
And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”
If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
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