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Narrative: Thy King Cometh

- That One Man Should Die -
Matt 22:15-23:12 • Mark 12:12-39 • Luke 20:20-46 • John 11:47-53

Then went the Pharisees, and they left him, and went their way. Then gathered the chief
priests and the Pharisees a council, and said,
“What do we? For this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe
on him: And the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.”

And one of them named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them,
“Ye know nothing at all, nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the
people, and that the whole nation perish not.”
And this spake he not of himself: But being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus
should die for that nation; and not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the

children of God that were scattered abroad. Then from that day forth they took counsel together how
they might entangle him in his talk for to put him to death.
And they watched him, and sent forth spies, unto him certain of the Pharisees their disciples
with the herodians, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, to

catch him in his words. That so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
And when they were come, they asked him, saying, unto him,
“Master, we know that thou art true, that thou sayest and teachest rightly, the way of God in
truth, neither carest thou for any man: For thou regardest not the person of any men but teachest the
way of God truly: Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Cæsar, or

not? Shall we give, or shall we not give?”

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