Verse 14
The Pharisees would not have put someone to death simply because he broke one of their traditional laws. They wanted to kill Jesus because they understood Him to be making messianic claims that they rejected. "Counseled together" (NASB) or "plotted" (NIV, Gr. sumboulion elabon) means the Pharisees had reached a definite decision.
"The phrase means to come to a conclusion, rather than to deliberate whether or not." [Note: Plummer, p. 175.]
This verse takes the official rejection of Messiah farther than it has gone before in Matthew. It is "the culminating point of the opposition of the Jewish religious authorities." [Note: M’Neile, p. 171.]
"Given this narrative comment, the reader knows that the leaders’ repudiation of Jesus has now become irreversible." [Note: Kingsbury, Matthew as . . ., p. 73.]
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