John 11:51

But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at...

nor do you consider that it is advantageous for you that one man should die for the people, and that...

and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who...

So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.