Matthew 28:12

And they gathered them together with the elders, and took counsel, and gave large money unto the soldiers,

W hy did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things?

Then assembled together the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people into the palace of the high priest, called Caiaphas:

when the morning was come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people held a counsel against Jesus, to put him to death,

The next day that followeth the day of preparing, the high priests and Pharisees got themselves to Pilate,

Then gathered the high priests and the Pharisees a council and said, "What do we? This man doeth many miracles.

The high priests therefore held a council that they might put Lazarus to death also,

And it chanced on the morrow that their rulers, and elders, and scribes:

When they heard that, they clave asunder, and sought means to slay them.

And to him they agreed, and called the apostles, and beat them, and commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

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