Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,

When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? {rage: or, tumultuously assemble} {imagine: Heb. meditate}

When they heard {that}, they were cut {to the heart}, and took counsel to slay them.

And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten {them}, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;

Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.

Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.

Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and {against} God.