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Mount of Evil Counsel

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

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One of the high hills to the south of Jerusalem, forms the eastern boundary of the plain of Raphaim. Tradition of the 12th century says that Caiphas here owned a house in which the Jews held their first meeting to take counsel against Jesus and "prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation" (John 11).