Jesus came back to the Temple; and as he taught, the chief priests and the elders came to him and asked, "What right do you have to do these things? Who gave you such right?"

Then the chief priests and the elders met together in the palace of Caiaphas, the High Priest,

The chief priests and the whole Council tried to find some false evidence against Jesus to put him to death;

Early in the morning all the chief priests and the elders made their plans against Jesus to put him to death.

The chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask Pilate to set Barabbas free and have Jesus put to death.

Your enemies do not know that you will punish them. LORD, put them to shame and let them suffer; let them suffer the punishment you have prepared. Show them how much you love your people.

The chief priests and the teachers of the Law heard of this, so they began looking for some way to kill Jesus. They were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.

Then some of the Pharisees in the crowd spoke to Jesus. "Teacher," they said, "command your disciples to be quiet!"

Jesus answered, "I tell you that if they keep quiet, the stones themselves will start shouting."

One day when Jesus was in the Temple teaching the people and preaching the Good News, the chief priests and the teachers of the Law, together with the elders, came

The chief priests and the teachers of the Law were afraid of the people, and so they were trying to find a way of putting Jesus to death secretly.

When day came, the elders, the chief priests, and the teachers of the Law met together, and Jesus was brought before the Council.

So the Pharisees and the chief priests met with the Council and said, "What shall we do? Look at all the miracles this man is performing!

One of them, named Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said, "What fools you are!

The Pharisees then said to one another, "You see, we are not succeeding at all! Look, the whole world is following him!"

The crowds walking in front of Jesus and those walking behind began to shout, "Praise to David's Son! God bless him who comes in the name of the Lord! Praise be to God!"

"What do you think about the Messiah? Whose descendant is he?" "He is David's descendant," they answered.

The scripture says that the Messiah will be a descendant of King David and will be born in Bethlehem, the town where David lived."

The Pharisees heard that Jesus was winning and baptizing more disciples than John.