Caiaphas' Prophecy - Jesus Should Die Instead Of The Jews

John 11:50-52 reads “… Caiaphas … said … consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.”Caiaphas was advising that Jesus should die for the Jewish nation. Not just for their benefit, but instead of them. He was thinking that if Jesus caused too much of an uproar, the Romans would come down hard on the occupied nation and there would be much Jewish bloodshed. Caiaphas reasoned it is better that one man die instead of the nation as a whole perish. As Bob Myhan said in his article on “Penal Substitution” (2-24-14) - “…Caiaphas wanted Jesus to die instead of or in place of Israel ….”Now Caiaphas meant Jesus should die for the physical salvation of the Jews, but “this spake he not of himself” - God was prophesying through him to mean the Jews’ spiritual salvation. So putting 2 and 2 together, Jesus was to die instead of, in the place of the Jewish nation (and the Gentiles, verse 52) - for their spiritual salvation.See the proof of the Substitutionary death of Christ?