| John 11:51
| And this he spoke not of himself: but being the high priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation.
| The same words have an impious and sacrilegious sense in the intention of the high priest, the enemy of Jesus Christ: and a divine and prophetic sense, in the intention of the Holy Ghost. (Bible de Vence) --- We here behold the privilege of the office and order, though in a wicked person: and as we have the assistance of God for the utterance of truth, which Caiphas neither meant nor knew, we may rest satisfied that Christ will not leave Peter's chair; (Luke 22:32.) whose faith he promises should never fail, though the occupants be as bad as their enemies describe them.
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