Matthew 26:2

Matthew 26:2

The Plot to Kill Jesus

1 Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, that He said to His disciples,

2 ^a“You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”

3 ^aThen the chief priests,¹ the scribes, and the elders of the people assembled at the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

4 and ^aplotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him.

5 But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the ^apeople.”

The Anointing at Bethany

6 And when Jesus was in ^aBethany at the house of Simon the leper,

7 a woman came to Him having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Cometh (ginetai). Futuristic use of the present middle indicative. This was probably our Tuesday evening (beginning of Jewish Wednesday). The passover began on our Thursday evening (beginning of Jewish Friday).

After two days (meta duo hmerav) is just the familiar popular mode of speech. The passover came technically on the second day from this time.

Is delivered up (paradidotai). Another instance of the futuristic present passive indicative. The same form occurs in verse Matthew 26:24. Thus Jesus sets a definite date for the coming crucifixion which he has been predicting for six months.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 26:2:**

Matthew 27:32
Mark 14:1
Mark 15:1
Luke 22:1

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