The Death Part 1.6

From: The Cross, the Blood and the Death of Jesus Christ By: George Vicesimus Wigram

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6. But it was not the desire of the people only, but the planned counsel of the chief office-bearers both in religion and in state.-" Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest ... ... Caiaphas, and consulted that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him." (Matt. 26:3, 4³Then 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, ⁴And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him. (Matthew 26:3‑4); Mark 14:1¹After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. (Mark 14:1); Luke 22:2²And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people. (Luke 22:2).)

Nothing short of His destruction could satisfy the malice, or still the fears of these, the conductors of His temple worship, and the rulers of His people;-as His people were in the last quotation shown by Him to be ready to kill Him, so here the same is shown in the chief leaders of the religion of that day.

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