Matthew 26:3
Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.
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In Context
2After two days is the Passover, and the Son of man will be given up to the death of the cross.
4And they made designs together to take Jesus by some trick, and put him to death.
Cross References
Psalms 56:6\56:5\Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Psalms 94:20What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?
Jeremiah 17:27But if you do not give ear to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and to let no weight be lifted and taken through the doors of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: then I will put a fire in its doorways, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem, and it will never be put out.
Matthew 21:45And when his stories came to the ears of the chief priests and the Pharisees, they saw that he was talking of them.
Matthew 26:69Now Peter was seated in the open square outside the house: and a servant-girl came to him, saying, You were with Jesus the Galilaean.
Luke 3:2When Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of the Lord came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the waste land.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 26:2-6
The Plot of the Chief Priests. 1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples, 2 Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified. 3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, 4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him. 5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar… Read the whole commentary →