Matthew 26:4 - English Majority Text Version 2009

and plotted to take Jesus by guile and kill Him.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

and consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And consulted together in order to arrest Jesus by stratagem secretly and put Him to death.

American Standard Version (1901)

and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.

Common English Bible

They were plotting to arrest Jesus by cunning tricks and to kill him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And they took counsel so that by deceitfulness they might take hold of Jesus and kill him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And they consulted together, that by subtilty they might apprehend Jesus, and put him to death.

Matthew 26:4 Cross References

Matthew 12:14

But the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.

Matthew 23:33

Serpents! Brood of vipers! How shall you escape from the condemnation of hell?

Mark 14:1

Now after two days it was the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might get hold of Him by guile, and [how ]they might kill [Him].

John 11:53

Therefore from that day [on] they took counsel together, that they might kill Him.

Acts 13:10

[he ]said, "O full of all guile and all craft, [you] son of [the] devil, [you] enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

Acts 7:19

This [king] took advantage of our race, and oppressed our fathers, to make their babies exposed, in order that they might not preserve their lives.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear, lest perhaps as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.