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 11:47–53The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
• John 18:24Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.
• Mark 14:54Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire.
• John 18:28They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
• John 11:57Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.
• Matt 21:45–46When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.
• Acts 4:25–28who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
• Ps 2:1–2Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
• Matt 26:57–58Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.
• Acts 4:5–6In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.
• John 18:13–15and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
• Ps 94:20–21Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
• Jer 11:19But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn’t know that they had devised devices against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”
• Jer 17:27But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.”’”
• Ps 56:6They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
• Jer 18:18–20Then they said, “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 strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”
• Ps 64:4–6to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.
• Matt 26:69Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, “You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!”
• Luke 3:2in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

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