and how our chief priests and rulers handed Him over to be sentenced to death and crucified Him.
“You serpents! You generation of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?
But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and kill Jesus.
Early in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole Sanhedrin. And they bound Jesus and took Him away and handed Him over to Pilate.
When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and scribes, came together and led Him away to their council, saying,
Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
You have taken Him, who was handed over to you by the ordained counsel and foreknowledge of God, and by lawless hands have crucified and killed Him,
who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and have persecuted us. They do not please God and are contrary to all men,