Mateo 26:4

4 y con artimañas buscaban cómo arrestar a Jesús para matarlo.

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, faltan dos días para la Pascua, y el Hijo del hombre será entregado para que lo crucifiquen».

3 Se reunieron entonces los jefes de los sacerdotes y los ancianos del pueblo en el palacio de Caifás, el sumo sacerdote,

4 y con artimañas buscaban cómo arrestar a Jesús para matarlo.

5 «Pero no durante la fiesta —decían—, no sea que se amotine el pueblo».

6 Estando Jesús en Betania, en casa de Simón llamado el Leproso,