A reading from the
holy Gospel according to John: (11, 45-57)
Many of the Jews
therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.
But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what he had done. So the
chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and said,
‘What are we to do? This man is performing many signs. If we let him go on like
this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both
our holy place and our nation.’ But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest
that year, said to them, ‘You know nothing at all! You do not understand that
it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole
nation destroyed.’ He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that
year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation, and not for the
nation only, but to gather into one the dispersed children of God. So from that
day on they planned to put him to death.
Jesus therefore no
longer walked about openly among the Jews, but went from there to a town called
Ephraim in the region near the wilderness; and he remained there with the
disciples.
Now the Passover
of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the
Passover to purify themselves. They were looking for Jesus and were asking one
another as they stood in the temple, ‘What do you think? Surely he will not
come to the festival, will he?’ Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had
given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should let them know, so that
they might arrest him.
This is the word
of the Lord.
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To go or not to
go, this is the question three types of people asked in this selection from the
Gospel written by John.
