John 18:28

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Summary

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.

Led

Early

And they

Eat

General references

Proverbs 4:16

Matthew 23:24

Bible References

Led

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

Immediately 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 to Pilate.

The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

Early

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

For they do not sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

Woe 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.

As soon as it was day, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

And they

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom. Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the Law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

The chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, "It's not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood."

He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean.

saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them."

Eat

But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jewish leaders, "Look, here is your King."

You shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments to the LORD.

And his officials gave for a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of God's house, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small livestock, and three hundred head of cattle.

"'In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

General references

For they do not sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.