The Plot to Kill Jesus
1 After Matt. 26:2–5; Luke 22:1, 2; John 11:55; 13:1two days it was the Passover and Ex. 12:1–27; Mark 14:12theFeast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by trickery and put Him to death. 2 But they said, "Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar of the people."
Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus
10 Ps. 41:9; 55:12–14; Matt. 10:2–4Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Him to them. 11 And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. So he sought how he might conveniently betray Him.