⁹ Then the Lord said to me, “There is a conspiracy^(A) among the people of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem.

¹⁹ I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;^(A) I did not realize that they had plotted^(B) against me, saying,

¹⁴ But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.^(A)

³⁸ “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir.^(A) Come, let’s kill him^(B) and take his inheritance.’^{(C) 39} So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

⁴⁰ “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”

⁴¹ “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,”^(D) they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants,^(E) who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”

³ Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled^(A) in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,^(B)

⁴ and they schemed to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him.^(A)

Judas Hangs Himself

27 Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans how to have Jesus executed.^(A)

² So they bound him, led him away and handed him over^(A) to Pilate the governor.^(B)