John 11:57
Good News Translation
The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where Jesus was, he must report it, so that they could arrest him.

New Revised Standard Version
Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

Contemporary English Version
The chief priests and the Pharisees told the people to let them know if any of them saw Jesus. This is how they hoped to arrest him.

New American Bible
For the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should inform them, so that they might arrest him.

Douay-Rheims Bible

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John 5:16-18 Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath. . . .

John 8:59 They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

John 9:22 These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had already agreed among themselves that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

John 10:39 They sought therefore to take him: and he escaped out of their hands.

Psalm 109:4 Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.

Context
The Plot to Kill Jesus
56They sought therefore for Jesus; and they discoursed one with another, standing in the temple: What think you that he is not come to the festival day? And the chief priests and Pharisees had given a commandment that, if any man knew where he was, he should tell, that they might apprehend him. 57
Cross References
John 11:46
But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things that Jesus had done.

John 11:47
The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles?

John 11:56
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