Mateo 26:4

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Mateo 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.

Mateo 26:4 In-Context

2 «Como ya saben, la Pascua comienza en dos días, y el Hijo del Hombre
será entregado para que lo crucifiquen».

3 En ese mismo momento, los principales sacerdotes y los ancianos estaban reunidos en la residencia de Caifás, el sumo sacerdote,

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5 «Pero no durante la celebración de la Pascua —acordaron—, no sea que la gente cause disturbios».

6 Jesús es ungido en Betania
Mientras tanto, Jesús se encontraba en Betania, en la casa de Simón, un hombre que había tenido lepra.