Passion Week · About AD 31
The Council Consults to Kill Him
Tuesday, the 13th
When
“after two days is the feast of the passover” Matthew 26:2
Where It Is Told
Matthew 26:1–5
1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,
2 Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
3 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,
4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
Mark 14:1–2
1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
Luke 22:1–2
1 Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
2 And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
Said on the Tuesday: the feast, the first day of unleavened bread and the high day, was Thursday, the fifteenth (Leviticus 23:6-7).
