Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
Parallel translations
- KJV When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
- BSB When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put Him to death.
- ESV When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.
- NKJV When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death.
- NASB Now when morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus to put Him to death;
- NLT Very early in the morning the leading priests and the elders of the people met again to lay plans for putting Jesus to death.
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Quick answer
At daybreak the Jewish leaders formally resolve to have Jesus put to death. Their nighttime trial is now given a veneer of legality.
Overview
The chief priests and elders convene at morning to confirm their verdict and plan their next step, since only Rome could carry out an execution. This decision shows the settled hostility of the religious authorities and their determination to destroy Jesus. Yet their plotting unwittingly advances God's redemptive plan, as Jesus moves toward the cross appointed for the salvation of His people.
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- Mark 15:1Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
- 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.
- Luke 22:66As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,
- Ps 2:2The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
- Mic 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
- Matt 26:3–4Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
- Matt 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
- Prov 4:16–18For they don’t sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
- Acts 5:21When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
- Judg 16:2The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light, then we will kill him.”
- 1 Sam 19:11Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”
- Luke 23:1–2The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.
- Acts 4:24–28When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
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