Matthew 26:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ and they took counsel together 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 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 any 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 habitation of the righteous; Spoil not his resting place:

Matthew 12:14

But the Pharisees went out, and took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.

Matthew 23:33

Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgement of hell?

Mark 14:1

Now after two days was the feast of the passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him with subtilty, and kill him:

John 11:53

So from that day forth they took counsel that they might put him to death.

Acts 13:10

and said, O full of all guile and all villany, thou son 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 subtilly with our race, and evil entreated our fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.