NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 4

Matthew 26:4

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

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Matthew 26:4 in context

Matthew 26:1–7

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

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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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