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Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
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A Calculated Political Plot
Commentators explain this was not a trial to determine guilt, but a strategic meeting. Having already condemned Jesus for blasphemy (a religious crime), the leaders now conspired to create a political charge of treason that would force the Roman governor, Pilate, to execute him. This shows their calculated and manipulative determination.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
Now when morning was come (πρωιας δε γενομενης). Genitive absolute. After dawn came the Sanhedrin held a formal meeting to condemn…
19th Century
Anglican
Took counsel — A better translation is held a council. (Compare the use of the word in Acts 25:12.) In keeping with the J…
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Baptist
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…
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…
16th Century
Protestant
But when it was morning. The high priest, with his council, after having examined him at an unseasonable hour of the night, finally resolv…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
13th Century
Catholic
Above, the Evangelist recounted what Christ suffered from the Jews; here, he recounts what He suffered from the Gentiles. And he does four things:<…
