But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.

It proves that [God's] wise counsel is right in the eyes of all of her children [i.e., in the eyes of people known for their wisdom]."

whatever is now obscure, shall hereafter be made clear; whatever is now conceal'd, shall then be publickly known.

then the woman finding she could not conceal herself, came trembling, and kneeling down before him, confess'd before all the people, why she had touch'd him, and how she was instantly cured.

At that very time Jesus fell into a divine transport, and said, "I magnify thee, O father, the Lord of heaven and earth, for having conceal'd these things from the artful and the crafty, whilst thou hast reveal'd them to the unskilful. justly, O father, hast thou thus dispens'd thy favour."

for there is nothing conceal'd, which shall not be disclos'd; nothing secret, which shall not be made publick.

One Sabbath, when he went to take a meal at the house of a member of the council who was a Pharisee, they were watching him closely.

Or what king, as he goeth to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

A member of the council asked him, "Good master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,

and led him into their council, Saying, Art thou the Christ? Tell us. And he said to them, If I tell you, ye will not believe.

Then the entire group of them [i.e., of the Jewish elders, priests and law experts] got up [from their Council meeting] and took Jesus to [governor] Pilate.

Pilate summoned the high priests and the leading members of the council and the people,

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’

Meanwhile, the people stood looking on. Even the members of the council were scoffing at Him and saying, "He saved others, let Him now save Himself, if He really is the Christ of God, His Chosen One!"

Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the Council, a good and righteous man,

A man named Joseph, who was a member of the Council (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court), a good and honorable man

(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.