Matthew 26:1-5

Revised Standard Version

The Plot to Kill Jesus

26 When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, ² “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of man will be delivered up to be crucified.”

³ Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, who was called Ca′iaphas, ⁴ and took counsel together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. ⁵ But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult among the people.”