Matthew 27:1

NOW when the morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus how they might put him to death.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 having bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:3Then were the chief priests and scribes, and the elders of the people gathered together in the palace of the high-priest, called Caiaphas.

Luke 22:66And when the day broke, the elders of the people and the chief priests and scribes assembled, and brought him into their sanhedrim, saying,

John 18:28Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium: and it was early: and they themselves went not into the praetorium, that they should not be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.

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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