1 And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.



Ver. 1. And straightway in the morning] They thought once to have deferred his execution till after the feast, Mar_14:2. But their malice was restless, as his was that said he would not away till he saw the martyr’s (the traitor’s he called him) heart out.