JOHN 11:52 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.”
And not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one — John expands Caiaphas's statement beyond its intended meaning: Jesus will not die only for the Jewish nation but for 'the scattered children of God' (the dispersed believers, and potentially Gentiles), bringing them into unified community. This is John's universal, inclusivist soteriology, applied to Caiaphas's unwitting prophecy.
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