After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, ¹  he asked them where the Christ ²  was to be born.

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

When ¹  it was early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to execute him.

Now after Jesus ¹  entered the temple courts, ²  the chief priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching and said, “By what authority ³  are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”

While he was still speaking, Judas, ¹  one of the twelve, arrived. With him was a large crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent by the chief priests and elders of the people.

For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’ ¹