Matthew 26:1-6

The Plot to Kill Jesus

1 When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples,

2 ¹"You know that after two days ²the Passover is coming, and ³the Son of Man ⁴will be delivered up to be crucified."

3 ⁵Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in ⁶the palace of the high priest, whose name was ⁷Caiaphas,

4 ⁸and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

5 But they said, "Not during the feast, ⁹lest there be an uproar among the people."

Jesus Anointed at Bethany

6 ¹⁰Now when Jesus was at ¹¹Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,^[a]