Matthew 27:1

BUT when it was morning, the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jeshu, how they should put him to death.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

In Context

2And they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him to Pilatos the governor.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:3Then assembled the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, in the hall of the chief of the priests, who was called Kaiapha.

Luke 22:66AND when it dawned, the elders and chief priests and the Sophree came together, and took him into the house of their assembly; saying to him,

John 18:28NOW they led Jeshu from Kaiapha into the praetorium, and it was early. But they would not enter the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, until they should have eaten the petscha.

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 →

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