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Matthew 26:3 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 3. 3Then 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,
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Quick Meaning
Gathers chief priests, scribes, and elders at Caiaphas's palace.
Read It With
- Matthew 26:1–26:5
Read Matthew 26:3 with 26:1–26:5. In isolation, this verse's contribution—gathers chief priests, scribes, and elders at Caiaphas's palace—can be detached from its speaker, audience, narrative or teaching sequence, and outcome. The complete unit establishes: Jesus completes his teaching, tells disciples he will be delivered for crucifixion at Passover, while chief priests, scribes, and elders gather under Caiaphas to plot a secret arrest away from the feast crowd.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Gathers chief priests, scribes, and elders at Caiaphas's palace. This precise contribution belongs inside “Jesus predicts Passover death as leaders plot” because Jesus completes his teaching, tells disciples he will be delivered for crucifixion at Passover, while chief priests, scribes, and elders gather under Caiaphas to plot a secret arrest away from the feast crowd.
What Remains True
Jesus completes his teaching, tells disciples he will be delivered for crucifixion at Passover, while chief priests, scribes, and elders gather under Caiaphas to plot a secret arrest away from the feast crowd. Matthew 26:3's proportionate contribution is this: Gathers chief priests, scribes, and elders at Caiaphas's palace.
How It Can Shape Life
- Matthew 26:3 contributes this specific claim: Gathers chief priests, scribes, and elders at Caiaphas's palace. Name plots, secrecy, and institutional power accurately while preserving differentiated responsibility; no Passion reading may transfer guilt to Jewish people or make suffering inherently holy.
Continue in Context
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Read Matthew 26:1–26:5 — Jesus predicts Passover death as leaders plotSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Matthew 26:1–26:5, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control without treating one edition as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text file data/sblgnt/text/Matt.txt, Matthew 26:1–26:5
Open the Matthew Greek text file ↗Lexical and grammatical evidence
STEP Bible Data
Tyndale House Cambridge
Tyndale House Cambridge, repository snapshot verified 2026
Supports: Morphology and lexical cross-check for the expressions actually discussed in this thought unit.
Exact location: STEP Bible Data TAGNT rows for Matthew 26:1–26:5
Open source ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Matthew with Translators' and Textual Notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2005-2026 online edition
Supports: Verse-attached textual, translation, language, historical, Jewish-background, and Synoptic notes for this unit.
Exact location: NET Bible Matthew PDF, printed pp. 1808-1867, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to 26:1–26:5
Open source ↗