1And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.
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When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: …
Then 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. …
And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,
And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate. …
The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-14)Here we have, I. A consultation held by the great Sanhedrim for the effectual prosecution of our Lord Jesus. They met early in the morning about it, and went into a grand committee, to find out ways and means to get him put to death; they lost no time, but followed their blow in good earnest, lest there should be an uproar among the people . The unwearied industry of wicked people in doing that wh…
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