Mateus 26:4

4 e deliberaram como prender Jesus a traição, e o matar.

Mateus 26:4 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 26:4

And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtlety
The Jews had often attempted his life, but he escaped out of their hands; they had sent officers to apprehend him, but to no purpose; they therefore meet and consult together, to form some scheme, and make use of some stratagem, that they might lay hold on him, and keep him; they were for doing this in the most private manner they could:

and kill him;
not with their own hands, nor privately; but their scheme was to apprehend him privately, by some secret artifice, and then deliver him to the Roman governor; to put him to death according to law, publicly, for crimes they had to charge him with; hereby ( Psalms 2:2 ) , had its accomplishment, at least in part.

Mateus 26:4 In-Context

2 Sabeis que daqui a dois dias é a páscoa; e o Filho do homem será entregue para ser crucificado.

3 Então os principais sacerdotes e os anciãos do povo se reuniram no pátio da casa do sumo sacerdote, o qual se chamava Caifás;

4 e deliberaram como prender Jesus a traição, e o matar.

5 Mas diziam: Não durante a festa, para que não haja tumulto entre o povo.

6 Estando Jesus em Betânia, em casa de Simão, o leproso,