Vicarious Atonement
John 11:47-53
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many miracles.


Some 350 years B.C. a great chasm opened in the Forum of Rome, which the soothsayers declared could only be filled up by throwing into it Rome's greatest treasure. Thereupon Mettus Curtius, a young and noble Roman knight, arrayed himself in full armour, and mounted his charger, and, declaring that Rome possessed no greater treasure than a brave citizen, leaped into the chasm, upon which the earth closed over him.

(W. Baxendale.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.

WEB: The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.




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