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John 18:14
John 18:14 is verse 14 of John chapter 18, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it would be better if one man died for the people.
King James Version
Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
World English Bible
Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.
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John 18:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible
12 Then the band of soldiers, with its commander and the officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound Him.
13 They brought Him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.
14 Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it would be better if one man died for the people.
15 Now Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he also went with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.
16 But Peter stood outside at the door. Then the disciple who was known to the high priest went out and spoke to the doorkeeper, and brought Peter in.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
John 11:49But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!
John 11:50You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
John 11:51Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,
John 11:52and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.