Matthew 26:4 - King James Version - American Edition

⁴ and consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ and consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And consulted together in order to arrest Jesus by stratagem secretly and put Him to death.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.

Common English Bible

⁴ They were plotting to arrest Jesus by cunning tricks and to kill him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ 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

⁴ And they consulted together, that by subtilty they might apprehend Jesus, and put him to death.

Matthew 26:4 Cross References

Genesis 3:1

Now the serpent was more subtile 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?

Psalm 2:2

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his Anointed, saying,

Proverbs 24:15

Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

Matthew 12:14

Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.

Matthew 23:33

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Mark 14:1

After 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.

John 11:53

Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.

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?

Acts 7:19

The same dealt subtilely with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

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.