Matthew 26:2-6
26:2 “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be handed over
1 to be crucified.”
2
26:3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.
26:4 They
3 planned to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
26:5 But they said, “Not during the feast, so that there won’t be a riot among the people.”
4
Jesus’ Anointing
26:6 Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper,
1 tn Or “will be delivered up.”
2 sn See the note on crucified in 20:19.
3 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
5 sn The suggestion here is that Jesus was too popular to openly arrest him.