Matthew 26:3

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Matthew 26:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 When Jesus had finished saying all these things, He told His disciples,

2 “You know that the Passover is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”

3 At that time the chief priests and elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,

4 and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.

5 “But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”

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Matthew 21:45

When the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they knew that Jesus was speaking about them.

Matthew 21:46

Although they wanted to arrest Him, they were afraid of the crowds, because the people regarded Him as a prophet.

Psalms 2:1

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Psalms 2:2

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:

Psalms 56:6

They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.

Psalms 64:4

ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.

Psalms 64:5

They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.

Psalms 64:6

They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.

Psalms 94:20

Can a corrupt throne be Your ally— one devising mischief by decree?

Psalms 94:21

They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

Jeremiah 11:19

For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

Jeremiah 18:18

Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”

Jeremiah 18:19

Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying!

Jeremiah 18:20

Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.

John 11:47

Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.

John 11:48

If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

John 11:49

But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

John 11:50

You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”

John 11:51

Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,

John 11:52

and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.

John 11:53

So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

John 11:57

But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.

Acts 4:25

You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Acts 4:26

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’

Acts 4:27

In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.

Acts 4:28

They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.

Matthew 26:58

But Peter followed Him at a distance, right up to the courtyard of the high priest. And he went in and sat down with the guards to see the outcome.

Jeremiah 17:27

But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”

Mark 14:54

Peter followed Him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. And he sat with the officers and warmed himself by the fire.

John 18:13

They brought Him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.

John 18:14

Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it would be better if one man died for the people.

John 18:24

Then Annas sent Him, still bound, to Caiaphas the high priest.

Acts 4:5

The next day the rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,

Acts 4:6

along with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and many others from the high priest’s family.