Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
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Gill's Exposition
Nor consider that it is expedient for us,.... Priests, Levites, Pharisees, the sanhedrim, and ecclesiastical rulers of the people; who, as Caiaphas apprehended, must suffer in their characters and…
Barnes' Notes
It is expedient for us - It is better for us. Literally, “It is profitable for us.” That one man should die - Jesus they regarded as promoting sedition, and as exposing the nation, if he was…
Adam Clarke
Nor consider - Ye talk more at random than according to reason, and the exigencies of the case. There is a various reading here in some MSS. that should be noticed. Instead of ουδε διαλογιζεσθε, which…
We have here an account of the consequences of this glorious miracle, which were as usual; to some it was a savour of life unto life, to others of death unto death.
I. Some were invited by it, and…
Cambridge Bible
expedient for us For us members of the Sanhedrin. But the better reading gives, foryou half-hearted Pharisees.
that one man Literally, in order that one man; S. John's favourite particle pointing to…
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