Jean 11:47
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
Note d'étude
Study Note
The Sanhedrin's crisis meeting after the raising of Lazarus — 'this man doeth many miracles; what do we?' — is deeply ironic: the miracles that prompt the council's murderous decision are themselves the very signs that validate Jesus' identity as the one Caiaphas will inadvertently identify in v. 51. The leaders' concern is explicitly pragmatic and political: 'the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation' (v. 48), demonstrating that the conflict is framed in terms of institutional power rather than theological evaluation of the signs. The Johannine narrator's comment (v. 51–52) that Caiaphas prophesied without knowing it is a profound theological irony: the high priest functions as an oracle of the atonement while plotting the death he describes. The passage is central to John's presentation of the irony of rejection: the greater the sign, the more determined the opposition.
Autres traductions
The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many signs.
the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?
Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs.
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