Matthew 26:4 - New King James Version

⁴ and plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him.

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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 cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You 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

Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; Do not plunder his resting place;

Matthew 12:14

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

Matthew 23:33

Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

Mark 14:1

After two days it was the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by trickery and put Him to death.

John 11:53

Then, from that day on, they plotted to put Him to death.

Acts 13:10

and said, “O full of all deceit and all fraud, 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 man dealt treacherously with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, making them expose their babies, so that they might not live.

2 Corinthians 11:3

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