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But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
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Verse 49. But one of them, named Caiphas, being the high priest, and so forth He said not this, says the evangelist, of himself, but as the high priest of that year. The spirit of prophecy was given him, and he foretells that Jesus was to lay down his life both for the nation of the Jews, and for all mankind. The gift of prophecy itself does not make a man holy. It was also given to the wicked Balaam. Numbers chapter 24. Witham.—It is supposed that he exercised the sacrificial office alternately with his father-in-law, Annas, who, as we have seen in Luke 3:2 was also high priest. V.
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