Mar 14:1-2, Luk 22:1-2, Joh 11:45-53 | ISV | STEP | The Plot to Kill Jesus Now it was two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. So the high priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus secretly and to have him put to death.

Mark 14:1-2

1 The Plot to Kill Jesus Matthew 26:1-5; Luke 22:1-2; John 11:45-53Now it was two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. So the high priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus secretly and to have him put to death.Matt 26:2; Luke 22:1; John 11:55; 13:1 2 For they kept saying, “This must not happen during the festival, lest there be a riot among the people.”

Luke 22:1-2

1 The Plot to Kill Jesus Matthew 26:1-5, 14-16; Mark 14:1-2, 10-11; John 11:45-53Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was near.Matt 26:2; Mark 14:1 2 So the high priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put him to death, for they were afraid of the crowd.Ps 2:2; John 11:47; Acts 4:27

John 11:45-53

45 The Jewish Council Plans to Kill Jesus Matthew 26:1; Mark 14:1-2; Luke 22:1-2Many of the Jews who had come with Mary and had observed what Jesus did believed in him.John 2:23; 10:42 46 Some of them, however, went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council ^{▼▼Or Sanhedrin} and said, “What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.Ps 2:2; Matt 26:3; Mark 14:1; Luke 22:2; John 12:19; Acts 4:16 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our temple ^{▼▼Lit. place} and our nation.”

49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, told them, “You don't know anything!Luke 3:2; John 18:14; Acts 4:6 50 You don't realize that it is better for you ^{▼▼Other mss. read for us} to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed.”John 18:14 51 Now he did not say this on his own initiative. As high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52 and not only for the nation, but that he would also gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.Isa 49:6; John 10:16; Eph 2:14-17; 1John 2:2 53 So from that day on they resolved to put him to death.