Matthew 27:1
When the morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people held a consultation against Jesus, that they might put him to death.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2And they bound him and led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
Cross References
Matthew 26:3Then the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people met together at the palace of the chief priest, who was called Caiaphas.
Luke 22:66And when it was day, the elders of the people, the chief priests also and scribes, met together, and led him up to the Sanhedrin, and said:
John 18:28Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor’s palace. It was the morning hour. And, in order that they might not be denied, but that they might eat the passover, they did not go into the governor’s palace.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 27:1
It is a very affecting story which is recorded in this chapter concerning the sufferings and death of our Lord Jesus. Considering the thing itself, there cannot be a more tragical story told us; common humanity would melt the heart, to find an innocent and excellent person thus misused. But considering the design and fruit of Christ's sufferings, it is gospel, it is good news, that Jesus Christ was thus delivered for our offences; and there is nothing we have more reason to glory in than the cross of Christ. In… Read the whole commentary →