The Chief Priests and Elders Plot to Kill Jesus

26 And it happened that when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, “You know that after two days the Passover takes place, and the Son of Man will be handed over[a] in order to be crucified.”

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas, and plotted in order that they could arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.[b] But they were saying, “Not during the feast, so that there will not be an uproar among the people.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 26:2 Or “will be delivered up”
  2. Matthew 26:4 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

26 · kai When hote Jesus Iēsous had finished teleō · ho all pas · ho these houtos sayings logos, he said legō to ho his autos disciples mathētēs, You know oida that hoti after meta two dyo days hēmera the ho Passover pascha is coming ginomai, and kai the ho Son hyios of ho Man anthrōpos will be handed paradidōmi over to eis · ho be crucified stauroō.”

Then tote the ho ruling archiereus priests and kai the ho elders presbyteros of the ho people laos gathered synagō in eis the ho palace aulē of the ho high archiereus priest , who ho was called legō Caiaphas Kaiaphas, and kai they plotted symbouleuō together to hina seize krateō · ho Jesus Iēsous by stealth dolos and kai kill apokteinō him. But de they said legō, “ Not during en the ho feast heortē, lest hina mē there be ginomai a riot thorybos among en the ho people laos.”

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