John 11:45-56
Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with
Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. But some of them went to the
Pharisees and told them what he had done. So the chief priests and the
Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and said, ‘What are we to do? This
man is performing many signs. If we let him go on like this, everyone will
believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and
our nation.’ But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to
them, ‘You know nothing at all! You do not understand that it is better for you
to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed.’ He
did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that
Jesus was about to die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but to
gather into one the dispersed children of God. So from that day on they planned
to put him to death. Jesus therefore no longer walked about openly among the
Jews, but went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the
wilderness; and he remained there with the disciples. Now the Passover of the
Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the
Passover to purify themselves. They were looking for Jesus and were asking one
another as they stood in the temple, ‘What do you think? Surely he will not
come to the festival, will he?’
Reflection
Do I believe in Jesus for what he has done
for me?
How do I understand things? How do I
understand God?