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Tyndale Open Study Notes on John 11:50

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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11:50-51 it’s better . . . that one man should die: Caiaphas’s words were ironic. He meant that it was better for a revolutionary to die than to have the Romans crush the entire Jewish nation. But Caiaphas was correct in a way that he could not perceive. The salvation that Judaism needed had little to do with Rome; it would come through the cross of Christ. John notes that Caiaphas’s inspiration was not his own but came from God.
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