Now when morning was come (πρωιας δε γενομενης). Genitive absolute. After dawn came the Sanhedrin held a formal meeting to condemn…

When the morning was come. This was not long after He had been condemned by the Sanhedrin. Peter's last denial was probably not far from t…

Took counsel — A better translation is held a council. (Compare the use of the word in Acts 25:12.) In keeping with the J…

They were so full of enmity against Jesus that they were eager to seize the first opportunity to take counsel to put him to death. They had spent t…

St. Augustine of Hippo: The Evangelist had previously brought his account of what was done to the Lord up to the early morning. …

Whether this formal decision was reached as a final stage of the first meeting or at a separate meeting held either in Caiaphas’s house or the temp…

But when it was morning. The high priest, with his council, after having examined him at an unseasonable hour of the night, finally resolv…

When the morning was come
Or, as soon as it was day, as Luke says, (Luke 22:66) . The sanhedrim had been…

Wicked men see little of the consequences of their crimes when they commit them, but they must answer for them all. In the fullest manner Judas ack…

Above, the Evangelist recounted what Christ suffered from the Jews; here, he recounts what He suffered from the Gentiles. And he does four things:<…