Matthew 26:3

Syriac Peshitta (NT Only)

ܗܳܝܕ݁ܶܝܢ ܐܶܬ݂ܟ݁ܰܢܰܫܘ ܪܰܒ݁ܰܝ ܟ݁ܳܗܢܶܐ ܘܣܳܦ݂ܪܶܐ ܘܩܰܫܺܝܫܶܐ ܕ݁ܥܰܡܳܐ ܠܕ݂ܳܪܬ݁ܶܗ ܕ݁ܪܰܒ݁ ܟ݁ܳܗܢܶܐ ܕ݁ܡܶܬ݂ܩܪܶܐ ܩܰܝܳܦ݂ܳܐ ܀

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assembled: Matthew 21:45, Matthew 21:46, Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:2, Psalms 56:6, Psalms 64:4-6, Psalms 94:20, Psalms 94:21, Jeremiah 11:19, Jeremiah 18:18-20, John 11:47-53, John 11:57, Acts 4:25-28

the palace: Matthew 26:58, Jeremiah 17:27, Mark 14:54

Caiaphas: This was Joseph, surnamed Caiaphas, who succeeded Simon son of Camith, in the high-priesthood, about ad 25. About two years after our Lord's death, he was deposed by Vitellius governor of Syria; and unable to bear his disgrace, and perhaps the stings of conscience for the murder of Christ, he killed himself about ad 35. John 11:49, John 18:13, John 18:14, John 18:24, Acts 4:5, Acts 4:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:16 - elders 2 Kings 23:4 - priestss of the second order 1 Chronicles 24:5 - the governors 2 Chronicles 34:13 - scribes Psalms 22:13 - gaped Psalms 26:10 - In Psalms 31:13 - while Psalms 41:7 - against Psalms 58:1 - O congregation Psalms 62:4 - consult Psalms 64:2 - secret Psalms 64:5 - commune Psalms 71:10 - take Psalms 86:14 - assemblies Psalms 119:95 - wicked Proverbs 1:11 - let us lurk Proverbs 24:2 - General Jeremiah 11:9 - General Jeremiah 19:1 - the ancients of the people Jeremiah 26:8 - the priests Matthew 2:4 - the chief Matthew 2:7 - General Matthew 21:15 - when Matthew 21:38 - This Matthew 27:1 - all Matthew 28:12 - General Mark 11:18 - and Mark 14:53 - and with Luke 19:47 - the chief priests Luke 20:19 - the same Luke 22:2 - General Acts 4:1 - the priests Acts 4:27 - of a

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then assembled together the chief priests,.... About the same time, two days before the passover, that Jesus said these things to his disciples, as is plain from Mark 14:1. By "the chief priests" are meant, either such who had been high priests, or such as were the heads of the twenty four courses of the priests; or rather, the principal men of the priesthood, who were chosen out of the rest, to be members of the great sanhedrim:

and the Scribes; the doctors, of the law, who wrote out copies of the law for the people, and interpreted it to them in a literal way: this clause is left out in the Vulgate Latin, and in Munster's Hebrew Gospel, and in the Arabic and Ethiopic versions, and in the Alexandrian copy, and some others, but is retained in, the Syriac version; and no doubt, but these men had a place in this grand council:

and the elders of the people; these were the civil magistrates; so that this assembly consisted both of ecclesiastics and laymen, as the sanhedrim did, of priests, Levites, and Israelites t: these came

unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas; his name was Joseph, but his surname Caiaphas; a word not of the same original with Cephas, as Camero thought; for these two words begin with different letters, nor are the rest the same. Now, though a king of Israel might not sit in the sanhedrim, yet an high priest might, provided he was sufficiently qualified with wisdom u. The president of this grand council at this time, should be Rabban Gamaliel, Paul's master; unless it was Caiaphas, at whose house they were: how they came to meet at the high priest's palace, deserves inquiry; since their proper and usual place of meeting, was a chamber in the temple, called Gazith w, or the paved chamber: now let it be observed, that according to the accounts the Jews themselves give, the sanhedrim removed from this chamber, forty years before the destruction of the temple x; and which, as Dr. Lightfoot conjectures, was about a year and a half before the death of Christ; and as others say y, four years; at least three years and a half before that time: but then, though the sanhedrim removed from the paved chamber, they met at Chanoth, "the sheds", which was a place within the bounds of the temple, in the mountain of the house; and the question still returns, how came it to pass they did not meet there? To me the reason seems to be, that they chose not to meet there, but at the high priest's palace, because of privacy, that it might not be known they were together, and about any affair of moment; and particularly this: the high priest's house was always in Jerusalem, and he never removed from thence; nor did he go from the temple thither only in the night, or an hour or two in the day; for he had an apartment in the temple, which was called the chamber of the high priest, where he was the whole day z.

t Maimon. Hilch. Sanhedrin, c. 2. sect. 1. u lb. sect. 4. w Misn. Middot c. 5. sect. 3. x T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 15. 1. Avoda Zara, fol. 8. 2. Sanhedrin, fol. 41. 1. Maimon. Hilch. Sanhedrin, c. 14. sect. 13. Juchasin, fol. 21. 1. y Edzard. not. in Avoda Zara, c. 1. p. 236. z Maimon. Cele Hamikdash, c. 5. sect. 7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 26:3. Then assembled together the chief priests — That is, during the two days that preceded the passover.

The high priest, who was called Caiaphas — Caiaphas succeeded Simon, son of Camith, about A. D. 16, or, as Calmet thinks, 25. He married the daughter of Annas, who was joined with him in the priesthood. About two years after our Lord's crucifixion, Caiaphas and Pilate were both deposed by VITELLIUS, then governor of Syria, and afterwards emperor. Caiaphas, unable to bear this disgrace, and the stings of his conscience for the murder of Christ, killed himself about A. D. 35. See Joseph. Ant. b. xviii. c. 2-4.