So from that time on, the Jewish leaders began to plot Jesus’ death.
Parallel translations
- WEB So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
- KJV Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.
- BSB So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.
- NKJV Then, from that day on, they plotted to put Him to death.
- NASB So from that day on they planned together to kill Him.
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Quick answer
From that day the leaders resolved to put Jesus to death. The plot becomes a settled purpose.
Overview
The council's deliberation hardens into a firm decision to kill Jesus. This marks a decisive turn toward the passion, even as the leaders act in unbelief. Yet their murderous intent will serve God's plan of redemption, as the cross they devise becomes the means of salvation.
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Cross-references · 18
- Acts 9:23When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,
- Acts 5:33But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.
- Ps 109:4–5In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.
- Jer 38:15Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? If I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.”
- John 11:47The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
- Jer 38:4Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.”
- Matt 16:21From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
- Neh 13:21Then I testified against them, and said to them, “Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they didn’t come on the Sabbath.
- Ps 71:10For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,
- Ps 31:13For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
- Ps 113:2Blessed be Yahweh’s name, from this time forward and forever more.
- John 12:10But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,
- Ps 2:2The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
- Mark 3:6The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
- Matt 22:46No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.
- Matt 26:59Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
- Mark 14:1It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.
- Neh 4:16From that time forth, half of my servants did the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
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