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Joh 11:50. Συμφέρει, it is expedient) Caiaphas is thinking of mere political expediency; but the Spirit of prophecy so directs him, as that he uses words suited to express what was spiritually expedient. Caiaphas and Pilate condemned Jesus; yet both gave a testimony foreign to their own personal feeling: Caiaphas, in this passage, gives testimony as to the sacerdotal character of the death of Christ; Pilate, in the inscription on the cross, gave testimony as to His kingly character.-εἷς, one) 2Co 5:14-15, “One died for all,-He died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves.”-καὶ μὴ ὅλον τὸ ἔθνος ἀπόληται, and not that the whole nation perish) He refers to their words in the close of Joh 11:48, “The Romans shall take away both our place and nation.”