59Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
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Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. …
And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none. …
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; …
So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth. …
And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 57-68)We have here the arraignment of our Lord Jesus in the ecclesiastical court, before the great sanhedrim. Observe, I. The sitting of the court; the scribes and the elders were assembled, though it was in the dead time of the night, when other people were fast asleep in their beds; yet, to gratify their malice against Christ, they denied themselves that natural rest, and sat up all night, to be ready…
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