Joh 11:49-52 | Family | STEP | Ye know nothing ; nothing about the best way to prevent the people from embracing Jesus as the Messiah, and thus to preserve the nation from ruin. His idea was, that, innocent or guilty, it was best to kill him.

John 11:49-52

Ye know nothing; nothing about the best way to prevent the people from embracing Jesus as the Messiah, and thus to preserve the nation from ruin. His idea was, that, innocent or guilty, it was best to kill him. It is expedient; he thought it better that Jesus should be put to death, than that the nation should be ruined, as the rulers said it would be if the people should follow Christ. He prophesied; though the above appears to have been his meaning, yet the Holy Spirit, through his words, expressed the momentous truth, that it was expedient that Jesus Christ, as the Saviour of lost men, should die, the just for the unjust--not for the Jewish nation only, but for all nations, propitiation for the sins of the world, that he might gather into heaven all who should believe and obey him.