Matthew 26:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

Assembled

The palace

Matthew 26:58

Jeremiah 17:27

Mark 14:54

Caiaphas

John 11:49

John 18:13

Acts 4:5

General references

Luke 22:2

Bible References

Assembled

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking about them.

Why are the nations in an uproar
And the peoples devising a vain thing?

They

attack, they lurk,

They watch my steps,
As they have waited to take my life.

To shoot from concealment at the blameless;
Suddenly they shoot at him, and do not fear.

Can a

throne of destruction be allied with You,

One which devises mischief by decree?

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;
And I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
And let us cut him off from the land of the living,
That his name be remembered no more.”

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the sage, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give no heed to any of his words.”

Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many

signs.

who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, said,
‘Why did the

Gentiles rage,

And the peoples devise futile things?

The palace

But Peter was following Him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and entered in, and sat down with the

officers to see the outcome.

But if you do not listen to Me to keep the sabbath day holy by not carrying a load and coming in through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem and not be quenched.”’”

Peter had followed Him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest; and he was sitting with the officers and warming himself at the fire.

Caiaphas

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,

and led Him to Annas first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

On the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem;

General references

For their minds devise violence,
And their lips talk of trouble.

Then the Lord said to me, “A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Then Herod secretly called the magi and determined from them the exact time the star appeared.

And when they had assembled with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

The chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might put Him to death; for they were afraid of the people.