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Matthew 26:4

Matthew 26:4 is verse 4 of Matthew chapter 26, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.

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King James Version

And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.

World English Bible

They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.

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Matthew 26:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

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.”

6 While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper,

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 2:2

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

Matthew 23:33

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

Genesis 3:1

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”

Acts 7:19

He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

Acts 13:10

and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

2 Corinthians 11:3

I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.

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