After the priests had assembled with the elders, they devised a plan to give a large sum of money to the soldiers,
But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.
While they were going, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests everything that had happened.
telling them, “You must say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’
So the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
and when they had called in the apostles, they had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and let them go.