EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS 85
THE JEWS PLOT TO KILL YESHUA
Then many of the Jews who had come to Miryam and seen what he did be-
lieved in him. But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them
what Yeshua had done.
So the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin^40
and said, "What can we to do about this man who is performing so many
miraculous signs? If we leave him like this, everyone will believe in him, and
the Romans will come and take away our holy place and nation."
But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest for that year, said to them,
"You know nothing. You haven't understood that it is better for one man to die
for the sake of the people and not have the whole nation destroyed."
This he did not say on his own, but as high priest for that year he prophe-
sied that Yeshua would die for the sake of the nation, and not only for the na-
tion but so that he might bring together the scattered children of god.
From that day on they planned to kill him.
So Yeshua no longer walked openly among the Jews but went away from
there to the country near the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and he stayed
there with the students.
Now, the Pesach of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to
Yerushalayim before Pesach to purify themselves. They were looking for
Yeshua and said to one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you
think? That he won't come to the festival?"
But the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew
where he was, he should report it so they might seize him.
(Chapter 12)MIRYAM ANOINTS YESHUA'S FEET
Six days before the Pesach, Yeshua came to Bethany where Eleazar was, whom
he had raised from the dead. So they prepared a supper for him, and Martha
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