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Complete Jewish Bible

Matthew 26:4

They made plans to arrest Yeshua surreptitiously and have him put to death;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Conspiracy;   Craftiness;   Government;   Persecution;   Priest;   Thompson Chain Reference - Craftiness;   Duplicity;   Plots Laid;   Plotting;   Simplicity-Duplicity;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Caiaphas;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Universalists;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Matthew, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - John, Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Announcements of Death;   Arrest ;   Betrayal;   Man (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Passover;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bethany;   Caiaphas;   Consult;   Jesus Christ (Part 1 of 2);   Jesus Christ, the Arrest and Trial of;   Subtil;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and they conspired to arrest Jesus in a treacherous way and kill him.
King James Version (1611)
And consulted that they might take Iesus by subtiltie, and kill him.
King James Version
And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
English Standard Version
and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
New American Standard Bible
and they plotted together to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.
New Century Version
At the meeting, they planned to set a trap to arrest Jesus and kill him.
Amplified Bible
and plotted together to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill Him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and they plotted together to seize Jesus by stealth and kill Him.
Legacy Standard Bible
and they plotted together to seize Jesus by stealth and kill Him.
Berean Standard Bible
and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.
Contemporary English Version
They planned how they could sneak around and have Jesus arrested and put to death.
Darby Translation
and took counsel together in order that they might seize Jesus by subtlety and kill him;
Easy-to-Read Version
In the meeting they tried to find a way to arrest and kill Jesus without anyone knowing what they were doing. They planned to arrest Jesus and kill him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And consulted together that they might take Iesus by subtiltie, and kill him.
George Lamsa Translation
And they took counsel concerning Jesus, to arrest him by a snare and kill him.
Good News Translation
and made plans to arrest Jesus secretly and put him to death.
Lexham English Bible
and plotted in order that they could arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
Literal Translation
And they plotted together in order that they might seize Jesus by guile and kill Him .
American Standard Version
and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
Bible in Basic English
And they made designs together to take Jesus by some trick, and put him to death.
Hebrew Names Version
They took counsel together that they might take Yeshua by deceit, and kill him.
International Standard Version
They conspired to arrest Jesus by treachery and to kill him.
Etheridge Translation
And they held counsel concerning Jeshu, how that by artifice they might apprehend and kill him.
Murdock Translation
And they held a counsel against Jesus, that they might take him by guile, and kill him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And helde a councell, that they might take Iesus by subtiltie, and kyll hym.
English Revised Version
and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
World English Bible
They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And consulted, how they might apprehend Jesus by subtlety and kill him.
Weymouth's New Testament
and consulted how to get Jesus into their power by stratagem and put Him to death.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and maden a counsel to holde Jhesu with gile, and sle him;
Update Bible Version
and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
Webster's Bible Translation
And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill [him].
New English Translation
They planned to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
New King James Version
and plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him.
New Living Translation
plotting how to capture Jesus secretly and kill him.
New Life Bible
They talked together how they might trap Jesus and kill Him.
New Revised Standard
and they conspired to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and they took counsel together, in order that, Jesus, by guile, they might secure, and slay.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they consulted together that by subtilty they might apprehend Jesus and put him to death.
Revised Standard Version
and took counsel together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and heelde a counsell how they mygt take Iesus by suttelte and kyll him.
Young's Literal Translation
and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill [him],
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and helde a councell, how they might take Iesus by disceate, and kyll him.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and consulted how to seize Jesus by surprize, and take away his life.
Simplified Cowboy Version
tryin' to come up with a plan to kill Jesus.

Contextual Overview

1 When Yeshua had finished speaking, he said to his talmidim, 2 "As you know, Pesach is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be nailed to the execution-stake." 3 Then the head cohanim and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of Kayafa the cohen hagadol. 4 They made plans to arrest Yeshua surreptitiously and have him put to death; 5 but they said, "Not during the festival, or the people will riot."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

consulted: Psalms 2:2

by: Matthew 23:33, Genesis 3:1, Acts 7:19, Acts 13:10, 2 Corinthians 11:3

Reciprocal: Psalms 11:2 - that Psalms 21:11 - imagined Psalms 22:13 - gaped Psalms 26:10 - In Psalms 31:13 - while Psalms 35:20 - but Psalms 37:12 - General Psalms 41:7 - against Psalms 55:11 - deceit Psalms 56:6 - gather Psalms 62:4 - consult Psalms 64:2 - secret Psalms 64:5 - commune Psalms 71:10 - take Psalms 86:14 - assemblies Proverbs 1:11 - let us lurk Proverbs 12:5 - counsels Proverbs 19:21 - many Proverbs 24:2 - General Proverbs 24:15 - Lay Isaiah 32:7 - deviseth Jeremiah 11:9 - General Jeremiah 11:19 - and I Jeremiah 26:8 - the priests Jeremiah 26:15 - ye shall Daniel 6:4 - sought Daniel 6:7 - have consulted Matthew 21:38 - This Matthew 27:1 - all Matthew 28:12 - General Mark 11:18 - and Mark 14:1 - by Luke 19:47 - the chief priests Luke 20:19 - the same Acts 4:1 - the priests Acts 4:27 - the people Acts 23:12 - certain 1 Corinthians 5:8 - neither

Cross-References

Genesis 13:16
and I will make your descendants as numerous as the specks of dust on the earth — so that if a person can count the specks of dust on the earth, then your descendants can be counted.
Genesis 15:5
Then he brought him outside and said, "Look up at the sky, and count the stars — if you can count them! Your descendants will be that many!"
Genesis 15:18
That day Adonai made a covenant with Avram: "I have given this land to your descendants — from the Vadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River —
Genesis 18:18
inasmuch as Avraham is sure to become a great and strong nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed by him?
Genesis 26:2
Adonai appeared to him and said, "Don't go down into Egypt, but live where I tell you.
Genesis 26:3
Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you, because I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants. I will fulfill the oath which I swore to Avraham your father —
Genesis 26:4
I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, I will give all these lands to your descendants, and by your descendants all the nations of the earth will bless themselves.
Genesis 26:8
But one day, after he had lived there a long time, Avimelekh king of the P'lishtim happened to be looking out of a window when he spotted Yitz'chak caressing Rivkah his wife.
Genesis 26:17
So Yitz'chak left, set up camp in Vadi G'rar and lived there.
Genesis 26:18
Yitz'chak reopened the wells which had been dug during the lifetime of Avraham his father, the ones the P'lishtim had stopped up after Avraham died, and called them by the names his father had used for them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtlety,.... The Jews had often attempted his life, but he escaped out of their hands; they had sent officers to apprehend him, but to no purpose; they therefore meet and consult together, to form some scheme, and make use of some stratagem, that they might lay hold on him, and keep him; they were for doing this in the most private manner they could:

and kill him; not with their own hands, nor privately; but their scheme was to apprehend him privately, by some secret artifice, and then deliver him to the Roman governor; to put him to death according to law, publicly, for crimes they had to charge him with; hereby Psalms 2:2, had its accomplishment, at least in part.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 26:4. And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty — The providence of God frustrated their artful machinations; and that event which they wished to conduct with the greatest privacy and silence was transacted with all possible celebrity, amidst the thousands who resorted to Jerusalem, at this season, for the keeping of the passover. It was, doubtless, of the very first importance that the crucifixion of Christ, which was preparatory to the most essential achievement of Christianity, viz. his resurrection from the grave, should be exhibited before many witnesses, and in the most open manner, that infidelity might not attempt, in future, to invalidate the evidences of the Christian religion, by alleging that these things were done in a corner. See WAKEFIELD in loco.


 
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