But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant,
And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”
So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”
Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.
Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people gathered together, both chief priests and scribes. And they led him away to their council, and they said,
And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to put him to death, for they feared the people.
One day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up
And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.
Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.
When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.
Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death,
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.”
And when he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”
And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, “Have mercy on us, Son of David.”
O Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed. Let the fire for your adversaries consume them.
So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all.
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