John 11:48
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.
John 11:48 in other translations
| BSB | If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” |
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| WEB | If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” |
| ASV | If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation. |
| YLT | if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.' |
| DARBY | If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation. |
| BBE | If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation. |
| Webster | If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come, and take away both our place and nation. |
What does John 11:48 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on John 11:47-54
47-54. What do we? for this man doeth many miracles--"While we trifle, 'this man,' by His 'many miracles,' will carry all before Him; the popular enthusiasm will bring on a revolution, which will precipitate the Romans upon us, and our all will go down in one common ruin." What a testimony to the reality of our Lord's miracles, and their resistless effect, from His bitterest enemies!
Barnes' Notes
And the Romans shall come. They were then subject to the Romans--tributary and dependent. Whatever privileges they had they held at the will of the Roman emperor. They believed, or feigned to believe, that Jesus was intending to set up a temporal kingdom. As he claimed to be the Messiah, so they supposed, of course, that he designed to be a temporal prince, and they professed to believe that this claim was, in fact, hostility to the Roman emperor. They supposed that it would involve the nation in war if he was not arrested, and that the effect would be that they would be vanquished and destroyed. It was on this charge that they at last arraigned him before Pilate, Lk 23:2,3.
Will take away. This expression means to destroy, to ruin, to overthrow, Lk 8:12, Acts 6:13,14.
Our place. This probably refers to the temple, Acts 6:13,14. It was called "the place" by way of eminence, as being the chief or principal place on earth--being the seat of the peculiar worship of God. This place was utterly destroyed by the Romans. Mt 24:1, and following.
And nation. The nation or people of the Jews.
(h) "all men" Jn 12:19
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on John 11:47-53
There can hardly be a more clear discovery of the madness that is in man's heart, and of its desperate enmity against God, than what is here recorded. Words of prophecy in the mouth, are not clear evidence of a principle of grace in the heart. The calamity we seek to escape by sin, we take the most effectual course to bring upon our own heads; as those do who think by opposing Christ's kingdom, to advance their own…
John 11:48 in the original Greek
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Cross references for John 11:48
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
- Daniel 9:26-27
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
- Matthew 23:35-38
That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
- Zechariah 14:1-2
Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
- Matthew 27:25
Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
- Acts 5:28
Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.
- Matthew 22:7
But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
- Luke 23:28-31
But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
- Luke 21:20-24
And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. …
- Zechariah 13:7-8
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
- Matthew 21:40-42
When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
- Luke 11:52
Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ac 5:28,38-40
all.
1:7; Lu 8:12; 11:52; 1Th 2:15,16
and the.
De 28:50-68; Da 9:26,27; Zec 13:7,8; 14:1,2; Mt 21:40-42; 22:7
Mt 23:35-38; 27:25; Lu 19:41-44; 21:20-24; 23:28-31
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Context
- John 11:47
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
- John 11:48
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.
- John 11:49
And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
John 11:48 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Si le dejamos así, todos creerán en él: y vendrán los Romanos, y quitarán nuestro lugar y la nación. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Si nous le laissons ainsi faire, tous croiront en lui, et les Romains viendront, et ôteront et notre lieu et notre nation. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn wir ihn also lassen, werden alle an ihn glauben, und die Römer werden kommen und sowohl unseren Ort als auch unsere Nation wegnehmen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Si dimittimus eum sic, omnes credent in eum, et venient Romani, et tollent nostrum locum, et gentem. |