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Not of himself (aph' heautou ouk). Not wholly of himself, John means. There was more in what Caiaphas said than he understood. His language is repeated in Joh 18:14.
Prophesied (eprophēteusen). Aorist active indicative of prophēteuō. But certainly unconscious prophecy on his part and purely accidental. Caiaphas meant only what was mean and selfish.
That Jesus should die (hoti emellen Iēsous apothnēskein). Imperfect active of mellō in indirect discourse instead of the usual present retained after a secondary tense (eprophēteusen) as sometimes occurs (see Joh 2:25).