Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)
Matthew 26:4
Matthew 26:4. By subtlety. On account of the impression made by our Lord upon the people, which still continued (Luke 21:38).
Matthew 26:4. By subtlety. On account of the impression made by our Lord upon the people, which still continued (Luke 21:38).
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 _...
13. THE PASSION OF THE KING. Chapter s 26-27. CHAPTER 26 1. His Death Planned. (Matthew 26:1 .) 2. Mary of Bethany Anointing the King.(Matthew 26:6 .) 3. The Betrayal. (Matthew 26:14 .) 4. The Last...
THE DECISION OF THE CHIEF PRIESTS (Mark 14:1 f.*). Mt. enlarges a simple statement of fact into a prediction by Jesus, and places the meeting of the conspirators in the house of Caiaphas. Luke 22:1 f....
When Jesus had completed all these sayings, he said to his disciples. "You know that in two days time it is the Passover Feast, and the Son of Man is going to be delivered to be crucified." At that ti...
THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST ACT OF THE TRAGEDY (Matthew 26:1-5)...
THAT. to the end that. TAKE. seize. SUBTILTY. guile....
_consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty_ It was no longer possible (1) to entrap Him by argument (Matthew 22:46); (2) to discredit Him with the Roman government (Matthew 22:22); or (3) to ta...
Matthew 26:1-5. Wednesday, Nisan 12. The Approach of the Passover. Jesus again Foretells His Death. The Sanhedrin meet Mark 14:1-2; Luke 22:1-2. Cp....
ἽΝΑ ΔΌΛΩΙ Κ.Τ.Λ. It was no longer possible (1) to entrap Him by argument (Matthew 22:46); (2) to discredit Him with the Roman government (Matthew 22:22); or (3) to take Him by force....
WEDNESDAY, NISAN 12. THE APPROACH OF THE PASSOVER. JESUS AGAIN FORETELLS HIS DEATH. THE SANHEDRIN MEET Mark 14:1-2; Luke 22:1-2 Cp. John 11:55-57, where we read that ‘the chief priests and Pharisees...
VER 3. 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, 4. AND CONSULTED THAT THEY MIGHT TAKE JESU...
_THE ANOINTING AND BETRAYAL OF JESUS MATTHEW 26:1-16:_ The chief priests, scribes and elders plotted with Caiaphas to destroy Jesus. Their intention was to by trickery, kill Jesus. Nevertheless, they...
ΣΥΝΕΒΟΥΛΕΎΣΑΝΤΟ _aor. ind. med. от_ ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΕΎΩ (G4823) советовать; _med._ советоваться между собой, ΊΝ (G2443) с _conj._ после гл. усилия или плана (EGT). ΔΌΛΩ _dat. sing. от_ ΔΌΛΟΣ (G1388) обман, у...
BY SUBTILTY— _Surprise._ Prussian Testament. See Luke 22:6....
SECTION 62 JESUS IS PLOTTED AGAINST BY THE RULERS TEXT: 26:3-5 3 Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the elders of the people, unto the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaph...
And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples, For the exposition, see the notes at Mark 14:1....
29 See Mat_13:12; Luk_:8:18; Joh_15:2. 31 See Mat_19:28; Mar_8:38. 31 The many judgments in the Scriptures should be carefully distinguished as to time and place and participants and the attending ci...
THE BETRAYAL. THE LAST SUPPER. ARREST OF JESUS, AND TRIAL BEFORE THE HIGH PRIEST 1-5. A Council is held against Jesus (Mark 14:1; Luke 22:1 : cp. John 13:1)....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 26 PLANS TO KILL JESUS 26:1-5 V1 When Jesus had finished teaching those things, he spoke again to his *disciples. V2 ‘As you know, t...
THAT THEY MIGHT TAKE JESUS BY SUBTILTY. — The plan implied in these words and in those that follow (“not on the feast day”) would seem to have been hastened in its accomplishment by the unexpected tre...
Chapter 19 The Great Atonement Day - Matthew 26:1 - Matthew 27:1 WE enter now on the story of the last day of the mortal life of our Lord and Saviour. We have already noticed the large proportionate...
ἵνα with subjunctive after a verb of effort or plan; in classic Greek oftener ὅπως with future indicative (Burton, § 205). δόλῳ by, craft, a method characteristic of clerics; _indigna consultatio_ (Be...
_Introductory_ (Mark 14:1-2; Luke 22:1-2)....
LOVE'S FRAGRANT MINISTRY Matthew 26:1-13 How great the contrast between the plotting in the court of Caiaphas and the love-ministry of Bethany! Yet even there, a strain of needless sorrow was added t...
The Lord now reverted to the theme of His coming suffering, telling the disciples with great definiteness of the time-"after two days"; and of the event-"The Son of Man is delivered up to be crucified...
CHAPTER 22 CONSPIRACY AGAINST JESUS Mark 14:1-2; Luke 20:1-2; Matthew 26:1-5. “And it came to pass, when Jesus finished all these discourses, He said to His disciples, You know that after two days is...
"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, (4) And consulted that they might take Jesus by...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
The Lord had finished His discourses. He prepares (chapter 26) to suffer, and to make His last and touching adieus to His disciples, at the table of His last passover on earth, at which He instituted,...
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 the...
And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill _him_. Ver. 4. _Take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him_] Craft and cruelty go commonly coupled in the Church's adversaries. Neither of the...
The _chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders_ They together constituted the sanhedrim, or great council, which had the supreme authority both in civil and ecclesiastical affairs. _Assembled tog...
The conspiracy:...
AND CONSULTED THAT THEY MIGHT TAKE JESUS BY SUBTLETY AND KILL HIM....
Only when His prophetic word, with its every dispensational bearing, is complete does the King, in calm, conscious authority, declare to His disciples that the time has arrived for His being betrayed...
1-5 Our Lord had often told of his sufferings as at a distance, now he speaks of them as at hand. At the same time the Jewish council consulted how they might put him to death secretly. But it pleased...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 26:5"....
Matthew 26:4 and G2532 plotted G4823 (G5668) G2443 take G2902 (G5661) Jesus G2424 trickery G1388 and...
‘And they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.' The purpose of their gathering was in order to discuss together how they could deal with the menace in their mids...
MEMBERS OF THE SANHEDRIN MEET IN ORDER TO PLOT JESUS' DEATH (26:3-5). Matthew now passes quickly from Jesus confident declaration concerning His ‘delivering up' to the to-ing and fro-ing of the Jewis...
THROUGH SUFFERING TO TRIUMPH (26:1-28). Matthew's description of what follows in the next few days is very much abbreviated compared with Mark's and Luke's. While seemingly following Mark or his sourc...
PREPARATION FOR WHAT LIES AHEAD (26:1-19). In this subsection we see Jesus' (and God's) preparations for what lies ahead which are interspersed with indications of the activities of the Chief Priests...
JESUS PREDICTS HIS CRUCIFIXION AND THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS PLOT HIS DEATH (26:1-5). This last section of the Gospel opens by revealing the plot. On the one hand Jesus declares that He is to be ‘d...
THEY TOOK COUNSEL TOGETHER (συνεβουλευσαντο). Aorist middle indicative, indicating their puzzled state of mind. They have had no trouble in finding Jesus (John 11:57). Their problem now is how toTA...
CONTENTS: Authorities plot Christ's death. Jesus annointed by Mary of Bethany. Judas sells Jesus. The last Passover. Lord's supper instituted. Gethsemane experience. Jesus before Caiaphas and Sanhedri...
Matthew 26:2. _After two day is the passover._ This is the literal import of the Greek word πασχα _pascha,_ and the Hebrew word פסח _pesach,_ because the Israelites, after eating the paschal lamb, pas...
TO ARREST JESUS SECRETLY. Public opinion was against them, and they were afraid of the people....
_That they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill Him._ CRAFT AND CRUELTY COUPLED IN THE CHURCH’S ADVERSARIES Neither of them “wants their mate,” as the Scripture says of those birds of prey and deso...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 26:1 The Crucified Messiah. Matthew narrates the events leading to Jesus’ death: (1) the Passover and Lord’s Supper and events in Gethsemane (Matthew
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 26:3 CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE ELDERS OF THE PEOPLE. Representatives of the Sanhedrin, the ruling body in Jerusalem, but not the full assembly. PALACE. The private residence of the...
RELIGIOUS LEADERS PLOT TO KILL JESUS MATTHEW 26:1-5; MARK 14:1-2; LUKE 22:1-2; MATTHEW 26:1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all the
1-26 CHAPTER 26 _And it came to pass, when He had finished_, or _completed_, all that He had spoken in the last chapter concerning, the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the world, then He gird...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 26:2. THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER commemorated the deliverance of Israel from the Egyptian bondage. The ordinances of the first Passover are narrated Exodus 12:1, but some of th...
EXPOSITION Ch. 26-28:20 THUS JESUS ENTERS UPON HIS KINGDOM. Before attempting to expound this most momentous section of the gospel history, we must make up our minds concerning the solution of the di...
Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings (Matthew 26:1), This is the end of now the Olivet discourse. He now said to his disciples, Now you know that in two days is the feast o...
2 Corinthians 11:3; Acts 13:10; Acts 7:19; Genesis 3:1; Matthew 23:33;