They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Matthew 26:4 in context
Matthew 26:1–7
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“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”
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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.
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They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.
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But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”
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Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
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a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.
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