the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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THE MESSAGE
Matthew 26:3
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Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas,
Then assembled together the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes, and the Elders of the people, vnto the palace of the high Priest, who was called Caiaphas,
Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
At that time the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together in the courtyard of the high priest named Caiaphas;
Then the leading priests and the elders had a meeting at the palace of the high priest, named Caiaphas.
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the courtyard of the [elegant home of the Jewish] high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, named Caiaphas;
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, named Caiaphas;
At that time the chief priests and elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
At that time the chief priests and the nation's leaders were meeting at the home of Caiaphas the high priest.
Then the head cohanim and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of Kayafa the cohen hagadol.
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together to the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas,
Then the leading priests and the older Jewish leaders had a meeting at the palace where the high priest lived. The high priest's name was Caiaphas.
Then assembled together the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes, and the Elders of ye people into the hall of the high Priest called Caiaphas:
Then the high priests and the scribes and the elders of the people assembled in the court yard of the high priest, who is called Caiaphas.
Then the chief priests and the elders met together in the palace of Caiaphas, the High Priest,
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas,
Then the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people were assembled to the court of the high priest, the one named Caiaphas.
Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the elders of the people, unto the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas;
Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.
Then the chief Kohanim, the Sofrim, and the Zakenim of the people were gathered together in the court of the Kohen Gadol, who was called Kayafa.
Then the high priests and the elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.Psalm 2:2; John 11:47; Acts 4:25;">[xr]
Then assembled the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, in the hall of the chief of the priests, who was called Kaiapha.
Then assembled the chief priests and the Scribes and the Elders of the people, at the hall of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
Then assembled together the chiefe priestes, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, vnto the palace of the hye prieste, which was called Caiaphas:
Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the elders of the people, unto the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas;
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.
Then the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people assembled together, at the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
Then the High Priests and Elders of the People assembled in the court of the palace of the High Priest Caiaphas,
Than the princes of prestis and the elder men of the puple were gaderid in to the halle of the prince of prestis, that was seid Cayfas,
Then the chief priests, and the elders of the people were gathered together, to the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas;
Then assembled the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.
Then the chief priests, the scribes, [fn] and the elders of the people assembled at the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
At that same time the leading priests and elders were meeting at the residence of Caiaphas, the high priest,
The religious leaders and the leaders of the people gathered at the house of the head religious leader. His name was Caiaphas.
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
Then, were gathered together, the High-priests and the Elders of the people, into the court of the High-priest who was called Caiaphas;
Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people, into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas:
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, who was called Ca'iaphas,
Then assembled togedder the chefe prestes and the scribes and the elders of the people to the palice of the hye preste called Cayphas
Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the court of the chief priest who was called Caiaphas;
Then assembled together the hye prestes and the scrybes, and the elders of the people in to the palace of the hye prest which was called Caiphas,
About this time the chief priests, and the elders of the people, assembled in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
It was at this time that the big wigs of the church were meetin' at the high priest's house and
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
assembled: Matthew 21:45, Matthew 21:46, Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:2, Psalms 56:6, Psalms 64:4-6, Psalms 94:20, Psalms 94:21, Jeremiah 11:19, Jeremiah 18:18-20, John 11:47-53, John 11:57, Acts 4:25-28
the palace: Matthew 26:58, Jeremiah 17:27, Mark 14:54
Caiaphas: This was Joseph, surnamed Caiaphas, who succeeded Simon son of Camith, in the high-priesthood, about ad 25. About two years after our Lord's death, he was deposed by Vitellius governor of Syria; and unable to bear his disgrace, and perhaps the stings of conscience for the murder of Christ, he killed himself about ad 35. John 11:49, John 18:13, John 18:14, John 18:24, Acts 4:5, Acts 4:6
Reciprocal: Exodus 3:16 - elders 2 Kings 23:4 - priestss of the second order 1 Chronicles 24:5 - the governors 2 Chronicles 34:13 - scribes Psalms 22:13 - gaped Psalms 26:10 - In Psalms 31:13 - while Psalms 41:7 - against Psalms 58:1 - O congregation Psalms 62:4 - consult Psalms 64:2 - secret Psalms 64:5 - commune Psalms 71:10 - take Psalms 86:14 - assemblies Psalms 119:95 - wicked Proverbs 1:11 - let us lurk Proverbs 24:2 - General Jeremiah 11:9 - General Jeremiah 19:1 - the ancients of the people Jeremiah 26:8 - the priests Matthew 2:4 - the chief Matthew 2:7 - General Matthew 21:15 - when Matthew 21:38 - This Matthew 27:1 - all Matthew 28:12 - General Mark 11:18 - and Mark 14:53 - and with Luke 19:47 - the chief priests Luke 20:19 - the same Luke 22:2 - General Acts 4:1 - the priests Acts 4:27 - of a
Cross-References
God appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your children." Abram built an altar at the place God had appeared to him.
Abraham traveled from there south to the Negev and settled down between Kadesh and Shur. While he was camping in Gerar, Abraham said of his wife Sarah, "She's my sister." So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her. But God came to Abimelech in a dream that night and told him, "You're as good as dead—that woman you took, she's a married woman." Now Abimelech had not yet slept with her, hadn't so much as touched her. He said, "Master, would you kill an innocent man? Didn't he tell me, ‘She's my sister'? And didn't she herself say, ‘He's my brother'? I had no idea I was doing anything wrong when I did this." God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know your intentions were pure, that's why I kept you from sinning against me; I was the one who kept you from going to bed with her. So now give the man's wife back to him. He's a prophet and will pray for you—pray for your life. If you don't give her back, know that it's certain death both for you and everyone in your family." Abimelech was up first thing in the morning. He called all his house servants together and told them the whole story. They were shocked. Then Abimelech called in Abraham and said, "What have you done to us? What have I ever done to you that you would bring on me and my kingdom this huge offense? What you've done to me ought never to have been done." Abimelech went on to Abraham, "Whatever were you thinking of when you did this thing?" Abraham said, "I just assumed that there was no fear of God in this place and that they'd kill me to get my wife. Besides, the truth is that she is my half sister; she's my father's daughter but not my mother's. When God sent me out as a wanderer from my father's home, I told her, ‘Do me a favor; wherever we go, tell people that I'm your brother.'" Then Abimelech gave Sarah back to Abraham, and along with her sent sheep and cattle and servants, both male and female. He said, "My land is open to you; live wherever you wish." And to Sarah he said, "I've given your brother a thousand pieces of silver—that clears you of even a shadow of suspicion before the eyes of the world. You're vindicated." Then Abraham prayed to God and God healed Abimelech, his wife and his maidservants, and they started having babies again. For God had shut down every womb in Abimelech's household on account of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
There was a famine in the land, as bad as the famine during the time of Abraham. And Isaac went down to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, in Gerar.
God appeared to him and said, "Don't go down to Egypt; stay where I tell you. Stay here in this land and I'll be with you and bless you. I'm giving you and your children all these lands, fulfilling the oath that I swore to your father Abraham. I'll make your descendants as many as the stars in the sky and give them all these lands. All the nations of the Earth will get a blessing for themselves through your descendants. And why? Because Abraham obeyed my summons and kept my charge—my commands, my guidelines, my teachings."
So Isaac stayed put in Gerar.
Isaac planted crops in that land and took in a huge harvest. God blessed him. The man got richer and richer by the day until he was very wealthy. He accumulated flocks and herds and many, many servants, so much so that the Philistines began to envy him. They got back at him by throwing dirt and debris into all the wells that his father's servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham, clogging up all the wells.
Finally, Abimelech told Isaac: "Leave. You've become far too big for us."
As it turned out, God was with Joseph and things went very well with him. He ended up living in the home of his Egyptian master. His master recognized that God was with him, saw that God was working for good in everything he did. He became very fond of Joseph and made him his personal aide. He put him in charge of all his personal affairs, turning everything over to him. From that moment on, God blessed the home of the Egyptian—all because of Joseph. The blessing of God spread over everything he owned, at home and in the fields, and all Potiphar had to concern himself with was eating three meals a day. Joseph was a strikingly handsome man. As time went on, his master's wife became infatuated with Joseph and one day said, "Sleep with me." He wouldn't do it. He said to his master's wife, "Look, with me here, my master doesn't give a second thought to anything that goes on here—he's put me in charge of everything he owns. He treats me as an equal. The only thing he hasn't turned over to me is you. You're his wife, after all! How could I violate his trust and sin against God?" She pestered him day after day after day, but he stood his ground. He refused to go to bed with her. On one of these days he came to the house to do his work and none of the household servants happened to be there. She grabbed him by his cloak, saying, "Sleep with me!" He left his coat in her hand and ran out of the house. When she realized that he had left his coat in her hand and run outside, she called to her house servants: "Look—this Hebrew shows up and before you know it he's trying to seduce us. He tried to make love to me but I yelled as loud as I could. With all my yelling and screaming, he left his coat beside me here and ran outside." She kept his coat right there until his master came home. She told him the same story. She said, "The Hebrew slave, the one you brought to us, came after me and tried to use me for his plaything. When I yelled and screamed, he left his coat with me and ran outside." When his master heard his wife's story, telling him, "These are the things your slave did to me," he was furious. Joseph's master took him and threw him into the jail where the king's prisoners were locked up. But there in jail God was still with Joseph: He reached out in kindness to him; he put him on good terms with the head jailer. The head jailer put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners—he ended up managing the whole operation. The head jailer gave Joseph free rein, never even checked on him, because God was with him; whatever he did God made sure it worked out for the best.
Let me give you some good advice; I'm looking you in the eye and giving it to you straight:
"Ah, God , listen to my prayer, my cry—open your ears. Don't be callous; just look at these tears of mine. I'm a stranger here. I don't know my way— a migrant like my whole family. Give me a break, cut me some slack before it's too late and I'm out of here."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then assembled together the chief priests,.... About the same time, two days before the passover, that Jesus said these things to his disciples, as is plain from Mark 14:1. By "the chief priests" are meant, either such who had been high priests, or such as were the heads of the twenty four courses of the priests; or rather, the principal men of the priesthood, who were chosen out of the rest, to be members of the great sanhedrim:
and the Scribes; the doctors, of the law, who wrote out copies of the law for the people, and interpreted it to them in a literal way: this clause is left out in the Vulgate Latin, and in Munster's Hebrew Gospel, and in the Arabic and Ethiopic versions, and in the Alexandrian copy, and some others, but is retained in, the Syriac version; and no doubt, but these men had a place in this grand council:
and the elders of the people; these were the civil magistrates; so that this assembly consisted both of ecclesiastics and laymen, as the sanhedrim did, of priests, Levites, and Israelites t: these came
unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas; his name was Joseph, but his surname Caiaphas; a word not of the same original with Cephas, as Camero thought; for these two words begin with different letters, nor are the rest the same. Now, though a king of Israel might not sit in the sanhedrim, yet an high priest might, provided he was sufficiently qualified with wisdom u. The president of this grand council at this time, should be Rabban Gamaliel, Paul's master; unless it was Caiaphas, at whose house they were: how they came to meet at the high priest's palace, deserves inquiry; since their proper and usual place of meeting, was a chamber in the temple, called Gazith w, or the paved chamber: now let it be observed, that according to the accounts the Jews themselves give, the sanhedrim removed from this chamber, forty years before the destruction of the temple x; and which, as Dr. Lightfoot conjectures, was about a year and a half before the death of Christ; and as others say y, four years; at least three years and a half before that time: but then, though the sanhedrim removed from the paved chamber, they met at Chanoth, "the sheds", which was a place within the bounds of the temple, in the mountain of the house; and the question still returns, how came it to pass they did not meet there? To me the reason seems to be, that they chose not to meet there, but at the high priest's palace, because of privacy, that it might not be known they were together, and about any affair of moment; and particularly this: the high priest's house was always in Jerusalem, and he never removed from thence; nor did he go from the temple thither only in the night, or an hour or two in the day; for he had an apartment in the temple, which was called the chamber of the high priest, where he was the whole day z.
t Maimon. Hilch. Sanhedrin, c. 2. sect. 1. u lb. sect. 4. w Misn. Middot c. 5. sect. 3. x T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 15. 1. Avoda Zara, fol. 8. 2. Sanhedrin, fol. 41. 1. Maimon. Hilch. Sanhedrin, c. 14. sect. 13. Juchasin, fol. 21. 1. y Edzard. not. in Avoda Zara, c. 1. p. 236. z Maimon. Cele Hamikdash, c. 5. sect. 7.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 26:3. Then assembled together the chief priests — That is, during the two days that preceded the passover.
The high priest, who was called Caiaphas — Caiaphas succeeded Simon, son of Camith, about A. D. 16, or, as Calmet thinks, 25. He married the daughter of Annas, who was joined with him in the priesthood. About two years after our Lord's crucifixion, Caiaphas and Pilate were both deposed by VITELLIUS, then governor of Syria, and afterwards emperor. Caiaphas, unable to bear this disgrace, and the stings of his conscience for the murder of Christ, killed himself about A. D. 35. See Joseph. Ant. b. xviii. c. 2-4.
