Sanhedrin Conspiracy

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”

They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.