Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel together how they might lay a snare to entrap him in his discourse.

NOW when the morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus how they might put him to death.

So taking counsel, they bought with them a potter's field, as a burial-place for strangers.

And being assembled with the elders, and having held a council, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

And the Pharisees instantly going out, held a council with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

AND immediately the chief priests having held a council in the morning, with the elders, and scribes, and the whole sanhedrim, after binding Jesus, led him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

But the Pharisees and teachers of the law rejected the counsel of God towards themselves, not being baptised by him.

And lo! a man named Joseph, being a member of the council, a good man, and a just;

him, by the destined counsel and foreknowledge of God delivered up, ye have seized, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

But bidding them retire out of the council-chamber, they conferred among themselves,

to do all that thy hand and thy counsel predestined should come to pass.

But when they heard this, they were cut asunder as with a saw, and took counsel how to make away with them.

For I have concealed nothing, so as not repeatedly to declare to you the whole counsel of God.

I appeal unto Caesar. Then Festus, after conferring with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed to Caesar? to Caesar shalt thou go.

in whom also we have obtained our inheritance, predestinated according to the purpose of him who effectually worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will:

But above all things have fervent love towards each other: for love will conceal a multitude of faults.