Mateo 26:4

4 Y tuvieron consejo para prender por engaño a Jesús, 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 hace la Pascua, y el Hijo del hombre es entregado para ser colgado en un madero

3 Entonces los príncipes de los sacerdotes, y los escribas, y los ancianos del pueblo se juntaron en el patio del sumo sacerdote, el cual se llamaba Caifás

4 Y tuvieron consejo para prender por engaño a Jesús, y matarle

5 Y decían: No en el día de fiesta, para que no se haga alboroto en el pueblo

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