Mateo 26:4

4 Y tramaron entre ellos prender a Jesús con engaño y matarle.

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 Sabéis que dentro de dos días se celebra la Pascua, y el Hijo del Hombre será entregado para ser crucificado.

3 Entonces los principales sacerdotes y los ancianos del pueblo se reunieron en el patio del sumo sacerdote llamado Caifás.

4 Y tramaron entre ellos prender a Jesús con engaño y matarle.

5 Pero decían: No durante la fiesta, para que no haya un tumulto en el pueblo.

6 Y hallándose Jesús en Betania, en casa de Simón el leproso,