This is nothing new (5:18; 7:19; 8:44,59; 10:39; 11:8) but they are now trying all the harder to accomplish it. The words of Caiaphas have made an impact on his hearers and they decide to follow his advice.

John 5:18  For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

John 7:19  Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”

John 8:44  You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 8:59  At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.

John 10:39  Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.

John 11:8  “But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews tried to stone you, and yet you are going back there?”

What a wonderful God we serve! He takes the greatest crime ever committed on earth and turns it into the greatest blessing ever given.