Matthew 28:12

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

And when they had assembled with the [Jewish] elders and conferred with them, they offered large sums of money to the soldiers,

Cross References

Matthew 12:14

But the Pharisees left and began discussing together how they could arrange to kill Him.

Matthew 28:11

Now while these women were on their way, some of the guards entered the city and began telling the leading priests everything that had happened.

Matthew 28:13

saying, “We want you to say, ‘Jesus’ disciples came at night and stole his body while we were asleep.’

John 11:47

So, the leading priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council [Note: This was the Jewish governing body called “the Sanhedrin”] and said, “What should we do, for this man is performing many [miraculous] signs?

Acts 5:40

And so the Council agreed [with Gamaliel's advice] and when they called the apostles back in, they had them beaten and ordered them never to speak in the name of Jesus [again]; then they released them.