Matthew 26:4 · KJV
“And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill {him}.”
— Matthew 26:4
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,
But they said, Not on the feast {day}, lest there be an uproar among the people.
Matthew 26 — Context
Ye know that after two days is {the feast of} the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
3Then 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}.
5But they said, Not on the feast {day}, lest there be an uproar among the people.
6Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
Cross References
Matthew 12:14
Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him. {held...: or, took counsel}
Acts 13:10
And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, {thou} child of the devil, {thou} enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
Psalms 2:2
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, {saying},
Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? {Yea...: Heb. Yea, because, etc.}
Acts 7:19
The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
Matthew 23:33
{Ye} serpents, {ye} generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.