Matthew 27:1

Modern English Version

When the morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put Him to death.

Cross References

Psalm 2:2

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

Psalm 31:13

For I hear the slander of many; fear is on every side; while they take counsel together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Psalm 71:10

For my enemies speak against me, and those who lie in wait for my life take counsel together,

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who conceive wickedness, to those who devise evil on their beds! At morning’s light they execute it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven against men. For you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.

Mark 15:1

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.

Luke 13:1

There were present at that time some who told Him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

Luke 22:66

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,

John 18:28

Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. Yet they themselves did not enter the Praetorium, so that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

Acts 5:21

Having heard this, they entered the temple at dawn and taught. But the high priest and those who were with him came and called together the Sanhedrin and the senate of all the Israelites, and sent to the prison to have them brought out.

Judges 16:2

The people of Gaza were told, “Samson has come here!” So they surrounded him and laid in wait for him all night at the city gate. They kept quiet all night, thinking, “In the morning light we will kill him.”

1 Samuel 19:11

Saul also sent messengers to the house of David, to watch him and to slay him in the morning. But Michal, wife of David, told him, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead.”