Matthew 27:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

The morning

Luke 22:66

Acts 5:21

All

General references

Matthew 28:12

Luke 23:1

Luke 24:20

Bible References

The morning

At daybreak the National Council met--both the Chief Priests and the Teachers of the Law--and took Jesus before their High Council.

When they heard this, they went at daybreak into the Temple Courts, and began to teach. The High Priest and his party, on their arrival, summoned the High Council, including all the leading men among the Israelites, and sent to the jail to fetch the Apostles.

All

But alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You turn the key of the Kingdom of Heaven in men's faces. For you do not go in yourselves, nor yet allow those who try to go in to do so.

Then the Chief Priests and the Councillors of the Nation met in the house of the High Priest, who was called Caiaphas,

As soon as it was daylight, the Chief Priests, after holding a consultation with the Councillors and Teachers of the Law--that is to say, the whole High Council--put Jesus in chains, and took him away, and gave him up to Pilate.

Then they all rose in a body and led Jesus before Pilate.

From Caiaphas they took Jesus to the Government House. It was early in the morning. But they did not enter the Government House themselves, lest they should become 'defiled,' and so be unable to eat the Passover.

All who heard their story, moved by a common impulse, raised their voices to God in prayer: "O Sovereign Lord, it is you who has 'made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them,'

General references

So they and the Councillors met and, after holding a consultation, gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

Then they all rose in a body and led Jesus before Pilate.

And how the Chief Priests and our leading men gave him up to be sentenced to death, and afterwards crucified him.