^2 (A)“You know that in two days’ time it will be Passover, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.” ^3 [a]Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, ^4 (B)and they consulted together to arrest Jesus by treachery and put him to death. ⁵ But they said, “Not during the festival,^[b] that there may not be a riot among the people.”

The Anointing at Bethany.^[c]

VII. The Passion Narrative^[a]

Chapter 22

The Conspiracy Against Jesus. ^1 (A)Now the feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover,^[b] was drawing near, ^2 (B)and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking a way to put him to death, for they were afraid of the people.

Session of the Sanhedrin. ⁴⁵ Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what he had done began to believe in him.^{(A) 46} But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. ⁴⁷ So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.^{(B) 48} If we leave him alone, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come^[a] and take away both our land and our nation.” ^49 (C)But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year,^[b] said to them, “You know nothing, ⁵⁰ nor do you consider that it is better for you that one man should die instead of the people, so that the whole nation may not perish.” ⁵¹ He did not say this on his own, but since he was high priest for that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, ⁵² and not only for the nation, but also to gather into one the dispersed children of God.^{[c] 53} So from that day on they planned to kill him.^(D)