Caiaphas

How Nave’s arranged it

• High priestLuke 3:2
• Son-in-law of AnnasJohn 18:13
• Prophesies concerning JesusJohn 11:49–51John 18:14
• Jesus tried beforeMatthew 26:2Matthew 26:3Matthew 26:57Matthew 26:63–65John 18:24John 18:28
• Peter and other disciples accused beforeActs 4:1–22

The passages, in Bible order (11)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 11 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Matthew 26:2

   “You know that the Passover is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”

   ›Commentary on Matthew 26:22 voices

   “The Passover, called in Hebrew Phase, does not come as most think from πασχεῖν 'to suffer,' but from the Hebrew word signifying 'to pass over;' because the destroyer passed over when he saw the blood on the doors of the Israelites, and smote them not; or the Lord Himself walked on high, succouring His people. After the two days of the shining light of the Old and of the New Testament, the true Passover is slain for the world. Also our Passover is celebrated when we leave the things of earth, and hasten to the things of heaven.

   He therefore used the verb impersonally—that is, "he will be delivered up." He did not say by whom, because the words apply to all those who delivered him up. But not everyone delivered him up in the same way. God delivered him up out of mercy for the human race: he "has not spared even his own Son but has delivered him for us all."

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2. Matthew 26:3

   At that time the chief priests and elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,

   ›Commentary on Matthew 26:31 voice

   “(Ver. 3 and following) Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the courtyard of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, and they plotted to arrest Jesus by trickery and kill him. But they said, 'Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.'

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3. Matthew 26:57

   Those who had arrested Jesus led Him away to the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and elders had gathered.

   ›Commentary on Matthew 26:572 voices

   “(Verse 57.) And they who were holding Jesus led Him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together. Moses, by God's command, had decreed that the priests should succeed their fathers, and that the line of succession should be preserved among the priests (Exodus 29). Josephus reports that Caiaphas purchased his high priesthood from Herod for a sum of money for only one year. Therefore, it is not surprising if this wicked high priest judges unjustly.

   “And they that had laid hold on Jesus,....

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4. Matthew 26:63–65

   But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to Him, “I charge You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God.”

   ›Commentary on Matthew 26:63–651 voice

   “(Verse 63.) And the high priest said to him, I adjure you by the living God that you tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God. Why do you swear, most wicked of priests, to accuse rather than to believe? If to accuse, others argue: condemn the silent one. If to believe, why did you not want to believe the one confessing?

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5. Luke 3:2

   during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

   ›Commentary on Luke 3:22 voices

   “As for the division of the priesthood, there is added: Under the high priests Annas and Caiaphas, who, moved by ambition, as Bede says, were purchasing the high priesthood from the Romans. Whence, because according to Bede and Josephus priests were no longer being instituted …

   “Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests,....

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6. John 11:49–51

   But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

   ›Commentary on John 11:49–512 voices

   “(t. xxx. c. 12.) a The character of Caiaphas is shown by his being called the High Priest of that same year; the year, viz. in which our Saviour suffered. Being the High Priest that same year, he said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, nor consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. (non occ.). i. e. Ye sit still, and give no attention. Attend to me.

   “And one of them, named Caiaphas,....

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7. John 18:13

   They brought Him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.

   ›Commentary on John 18:131 voice

   “And they bring Him to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, whence we may conclude that he was the prime mover and contriver of the iniquity against Christ, and that the traitor, when he received his hire, obtained from him the band to take Christ. He is, therefore, taken away to him first of all. For the Jews were bent on showing to us, that that was indeed truly spoken of them which the prophet put into their mouths: *Let us bind the righteous Man, for He is useless unto us.*

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8. John 18:14

   Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it would be better if one man died for the people.

   ›Commentary on John 18:141 voice

   “The sacred and holy Victim, then, that is, Christ, was captured by the malice of Annas and the services of his hirelings; and, ensnared within the net, was led to him that compassed and instigated the slaughter of the innocent. This was Caiaphas, and he was adorned with the office of the priesthood. And by his questions he seems to have begun the shedding of blood, as he also is convicted of having originated the impious enterprise.

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9. John 18:24

   Then Annas sent Him, still bound, to Caiaphas the high priest.

   ›Commentary on John 18:242 voices

   “Sent Him bound, not that He was bound now for the first time, for they bound Him when they took Him. They sent Him bound as they had brought Him. Or perhaps He may have been loosed from His bonds for that hour, in order to be examined, after which He was bound again, and sent to Caiaphas.

   “Now Annas had sent him bound,.... As he found him, when the captain, band, and officers brought him to him; who having pleased himself with so agreeable a sight, and had asked him some few questions, and perhaps insulted him, sent him away in this manner, unto Caiaphas the high priest: his son-in-law, as the more proper person to be examined before; and especially as the grand council was sitting at his house.

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10. John 18:28

    Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.

    ›Commentary on John 18:282 voices

    “They lead Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the palace: and it was early; and they themselves entered not into the palace, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the passover. Judge righteous judgment, and Thou shalt not slay the innocent and just man, were the express injunctions of the Law and the Word of God.

    “Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas,....

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11. Acts 4:1–22

    While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

    ›Commentary on Acts 4:1–221 voice

    “See how matters are managed. First they were all mocked together. Then, after they became respected in the public speeches and afterward wrought a great marvel, therefore indeed thereafter, having grown bold, God permitting, they enter into dangers, and undertake the contests. See the progress …

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