Matthew 26:1-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

The Plot to Kill Jesus

26 When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples, ² ‘You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be handed over 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 Caiaphas, ⁴ and they conspired to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. ⁵ But they said, ‘Not during the festival, or there may be a riot among the people.’