Matthieu 26:4

4 Et délibérèrent ensemble de se saisir de Jésus par adresse et de le faire mourir.

Matthieu 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.

Matthieu 26:4 In-Context

2 Vous savez que dans deux jours la pâque se fera, et que le Fils de l'homme sera livré pour être crucifié.

3 Alors les principaux sacrificateurs, les scribes et les anciens du peuple s'assemblèrent dans le palais du souverain sacrificateur nommé Caïphe,

4 Et délibérèrent ensemble de se saisir de Jésus par adresse et de le faire mourir.

5 Mais ils disaient: Que ce ne soit pas pendant la fête, de peur qu'il ne se fasse quelque tumulte parmi le peuple.

6 Et Jésus étant à Béthanie, dans la maison de Simon le lépreux,