Matthew Poole and continuators on John 11:52

52 And not for that nation onely , but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad .

Not for the Iews onely. The words used in Caiphas his speech were [non-Latin text not transcribed] and [non-Latin text not transcribed], words not significant of the Iews onely, but of other people also:

for Christ was to gather into one body all the Elect of God, (who are here called the children of God, because they were to be so after their being begotten by the Immortal seed of the Word, and born again of Water and the Spirit) those that at present were scattered abroad over the face of the whole Earth: Christ, Eph. 1.10. was to gather in one all things in Heaven and Earth. The Evangelist extendeth the sense of Caiphas his Prophecy, to Gentiles as well as Iews, according to the exte[illegible: 1 letter]t of the Death of Christ, declared 1 Iohn 2.2.

Marginal references: Isa. 49.6.; Eph. 2.14, 15▪ 16.