NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 3

Matthew 26:3

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Matthew 26:3 in context

Matthew 26:1–6

When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples,

“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”

Selected verse

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.

But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”

Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

Read the complete chapter in World English Bible Updated.