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Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
John 11:51 · World English Bible
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  • KJV And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
  • BSB Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,
  • ESV He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
  • NKJV Now this he did not say on his own authority; but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
  • NASB Now he did not say this on his own, but as he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;
  • NLT He did not say this on his own; as high priest at that time he was led to prophesy that Jesus would die for the entire nation.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Dan 9:26After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
  • 2 Cor 5:21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
  • Exod 28:30You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before Yahweh: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually.
  • 1 Sam 23:9David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”
  • Gal 4:4–5But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
  • Matt 20:28even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
  • Matt 7:22–23Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’
  • Isa 53:5–8But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
  • Num 22:28Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”
  • 1 Cor 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
  • Num 24:14–25Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”
  • Gal 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
  • John 10:15even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • Num 24:2Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.
  • Judg 20:27–28The children of Israel asked Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
  • 1 Sam 28:6When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn’t answer him by dreams, by Urim, or by prophets.
  • Rom 3:25–26whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
  • 1 Pet 2:24who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
  • 1 Pet 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
  • 2 Pet 2:15–17forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

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