"If we let Him alone like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation."

Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.

From then on Pilate sought to release Him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you let this Man go, you are not Caesar's friend. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar."

Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

And [why] not [say,] "Let us do evil that good may come"? -- as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.