Matt 27:1-2

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[h=1]Matthew 27:1-2 King James Version (KJV)[/h]27 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
[SUP]2 [/SUP]And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

[h=1]Matthew 27:1-2 Modern English Version (MEV)[/h][h=3]Jesus Brought Before Pilate[/h]
27 When the morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put Him to death. [SUP]2 [/SUP]When they had bound Him, they led Him away and handed Him over to Pontius Pilate the governor.

Modern English Version (MEV) The Holy Bible, Modern English Version. Copyright © 2014 by Military Bible Association. Published and distributed by Charisma House.


These are my thoughts, please share yours.

1 This time they would put Jesus to death because unlike before them talking this time was at His trial. They had plotted many times before to put Jesus to death but God didn’t allow it to happen then because it was not time but now the time had come.

2 So at this point the decide to let Rome judge Him which means they wanted His entire movement to stomped out by Rome but Rome later one day would accept that they could not over throw the Faith.

 

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The Jewish religious elites wanted the Romans to kill Jesus because they feared the common people who looked upon Jesus as a great man of God or even a prophet.. So if the Jewish religious elites manipulated Pilate into killing Jesus then any blow-back from the common people would be against The Romans not against the chief priests and elders..


Earlier the chief priests, scribes and elders had confronted Jesus in the temple and Jesus responded with a parable::
(Mark 12: KJV 1-12) "And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. {2} And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. {3} And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty. {4} And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled. {5} And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some. {6} Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son. {7} But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours. {8} And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. {9} What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. {10} And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner: {11} This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? {12} And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way."

 

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The Jewish religious elites wanted the Romans to kill Jesus because they feared the common people who looked upon Jesus as a great man of God or even a prophet.. So if the Jewish religious elites manipulated Pilate into killing Jesus then any blow-back from the common people would be against The Romans not against the chief priests and elders..


Earlier the chief priests, scribes and elders had confronted Jesus in the temple and Jesus responded with a parable::
(Mark 12: KJV 1-12) "And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. {2} And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. {3} And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty. {4} And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled. {5} And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some. {6} Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son. {7} But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours. {8} And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. {9} What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. {10} And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner: {11} This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? {12} And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way."

Good post and I agree, the high priest at the time prophecy about the death of Jesus. He wanted it along with the people who followed them and The whole crowd picked Barabbas.

John 11: 49-50
49But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! 50You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish