Matthew 26:4

"Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas."

Key Reflection

This gathering symbolizes the collaborative effort of religious and political leaders to betray Jesus, highlighting the corruption within Jewish leadership at the time. Their unity in plotting against Jesus foreshadows their failure to understand his true mission and role as the Messiah.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 4. By subtilty. By guile, deceit, or in some secret manner, so that the people would not know it. Jesus was regarded by the people as a distinguished prophet, and by most of them probably, as the Messiah; and the sanhedrim did not dare to take him away openly, lest the people should rise and rescue him. They were probably aware that he had gone out to Bethany, or to some of the places adjacent to the city; and as he passed his nights there, and not in the city, there was need of guile to ascertain the place where he remained, and to take him.

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