4And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
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Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Here is, 1. The notice Christ gave his disciples of the near approach of his sufferings, Matt. 26:1 , 2 . While his enemies were preparing trouble for him, he was preparing himself and his followers for it. He had often told them of his sufferings at a distance, now he speaks of them as at the door; after two days , Note, After many former notices of trouble we still have need of fresh ones. Obser…
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