57 Those who took Jesus into custody led him away to Caʹia·phas+ the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.+

49 But one of them, Caʹia·phas,+ who was high priest that year, said to them: “You do not know anything at all, 50 and you have not reasoned that it is to your benefit for one man to die in behalf of the people rather than for the whole nation to be destroyed.” 51 He did not say this, however, of his own originality, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was to die for the nation,