“Better for You to Have One Man Die”

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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.” (John 11:49-50, NRSVCE)

Caiaphas was right, of course.

But he didn’t realize it.

It was better for all of us that one man would die so that the...