Matthew 26:57
“And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.”
In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest’s palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
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Cross-References
“Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest’s house. And Peter followed afar off.”
“For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.”
“They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.”
“And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.”
“Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,”