Mattheüs 26:4

4 En zij beraadslaagden te zamen, dat zij Jezus met listigheid vangen en doden zouden.

Mattheüs 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.

Mattheüs 26:4 In-Context

2 Gij weet, dat na twee dagen het pascha is, en de Zoon des mensen zal overgeleverd worden, om gekruisigd te worden.

3 Toen vergaderden de overpriesters en de Schriftgeleerden, en de ouderlingen des volks, in de zaal des hogepriesters, die genaamd was Kajafas;

4 En zij beraadslaagden te zamen, dat zij Jezus met listigheid vangen en doden zouden.

5 Doch zij zeiden: Niet in het feest, opdat er geen oproer worde onder het volk.

6 Als nu Jezus te Bethanie was, ten huize van Simon, de melaatse,