By Christ or Chaos by Staff, (Complicit Clergy) - But one of them, named Caiphas, being the high priest that year, said to them: You know nothing. Neither do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not... And this he spoke not of himself: but being the high priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation. (John 11: 49-51)... The high priest Caiphas spoke the words above, recorded for posterity in the Gospel according to Saint John, to indicate that he had a “strategy” for dealing with the Roman occupiers as his party of Pharisees maintained their privileged places ....