A plea to stand with the scapegoated

A plea to stand with the scapegoated

Caiaphas, one of the high priests who plotted Jesus’s death, declared: “You do not understand that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed” (John 11:50).This chilling line has long been interpreted through the lens of what philosopher René Girard later called “Violence...