Matthew 26:3

The chief priests and elders gather at Caiaphas's palace to plot against Jesus. It shows the religious leadership conspiring against the very Messiah they should have received.

Cross-references · 19

• John 11:47–53Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
• John 18:24Then Annas sent Him, still bound, to Caiaphas the high priest.
• Mark 14:54Peter followed Him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. And he sat with the officers and warmed himself by the fire.
• John 18:28Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
• John 11:57But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.
• Matt 21:45–46When the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they knew that Jesus was speaking about them.
• Acts 4:25–28You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
• Ps 2:1–2Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
• Matt 26:57–58Those who had arrested Jesus led Him away to the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and elders had gathered.
• Acts 4:5–6The next day the rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,
• John 18:13–15They brought Him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.
• Ps 94:20–21Can a corrupt throne be Your ally—one devising mischief by decree?
• Jer 11:19For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
• Jer 17:27But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”
• Ps 56:6They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
• Jer 18:18–20Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
• Ps 64:4–6ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.
• Matt 26:69Meanwhile, Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came up to him. “You also were with Jesus the Galilean,” she said.
• Luke 3:2during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

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