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 gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
• John 18:24Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.
• Mark 14:54And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.
• John 18:28Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
• John 11:57Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
• Matt 21:45–46And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
• Acts 4:25–28Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
• Ps 2:1–2Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
• Matt 26:57–58And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
• Acts 4:5–6And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
• John 18:13–15And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.
• Ps 94:20–21Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
• Jer 11:19But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
• Jer 17:27But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
• Ps 56:6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
• Jer 18:18–20Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
• Ps 64:4–6That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
• Matt 26:69Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.
• Luke 3:2Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

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