48"What are we accomplishing?" they asked. "Here is this man performing many miraculous signs. If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."


In Context

45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, put their faith in him.

46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.

48 "What are we accomplishing?" they asked. "Here is this man performing many miraculous signs. If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."

49 Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, "You know nothing at all!

50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish."

John 11:48 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:48If we let him thus alone, all [men] will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

11:48If we let him alone so, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and take away our place and nation.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

11:48If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:48If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

11:48If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:48If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come, and take away both our place and nation.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:48If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

11:48if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:48If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.