Interesting...

I stumbled across this passage during my reading the other day, and it has lingered on my mind. It is found in the 11th chapter of John, just after Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead.

Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him, but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Council and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. 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." But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all. 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." He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.

I don't remember having read this before. It's funny how you can read an old familiar passage and trip over words that are so unfamiliar. I look forward to ruminating this passage and having it in mind when we get to this time period in our history study using Josephus.