'For Us' in the Bible

There in the Temple [area] He found people selling oxen, sheep and pigeons. [i.e., for use as sacrifices]. Also cashiers were sitting there. [Note: These people exchanged foreign coins so visitors to Jerusalem could make purchases and pay taxes].

"What miracle then," they asked, "do you perform for us to see and become believers in you? What do you *do*?

Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

Thomas said unto him, "Lord we know not whither thou goest. Also how is it possible for us to know the way?"

Philip saith to him, 'Sir, shew to us the Father, and it is enough for us;'

Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:

The Jewish leaders told him, "It is not legal for us to put anyone to death." This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.