Matthew 26:57 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οἱ	hoi	Those	G3588 →
δὲ	de	then	G1161 →
κρατήσαντες	kratēsantes	having seized	G2902 →
τὸν	ton	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰησοῦν	Iēsoun	Jesus	G2424 →
ἀπήγαγον	apēgagon	led [Him] away	G520 →
πρὸς	pros	to	G4314 →
Καϊάφαν	Kaiaphan	Caiaphas	G2533 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
ἀρχιερέα	archierea	high priest	G749 →
ὅπου	hopou	where	G3699 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
γραμματεῖς	grammateis	scribes	G1122 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
πρεσβύτεροι	presbuteroi	elders	G4245 →
συνήχθησαν.¶	sunēchthēsan	were assembled.	G4863 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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,
leads to
- John 11:47–53
  Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
- John 18:24
  Then Annas sent Him, still bound, to Caiaphas the high priest.
- Mark 14:54
  Peter followed Him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. And he sat with the officers and warmed himself by the fire.
- John 11:57
  But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.
Through
John 11:49
But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!
leads to
- 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,
- Proverbs 26:12
  Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- John 18:13–14
  They brought Him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.
- John 11:51
  Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Psalms 22:16For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.John 18:12Then the band of soldiers, with its commander and the officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound Him.John 18:13They brought Him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.John 18:24Then Annas sent Him, still bound, to Caiaphas the high priest.Matthew 21:39So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.Matthew 26:3At that time the chief priests and elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,Acts 6:12So they stirred up the people, elders, and scribes and confronted Stephen. They seized him and brought him before the Sanhedrin,John 11:49But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!Luke 22:54–55Then they seized Jesus, led Him away, and took Him into the house of the high priest. And Peter followed at a distance.Mark 14:53–65They led Jesus away to the high priest, and all the chief priests, elders, and scribes assembled.John 18:12–14Then the band of soldiers, with its commander and the officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound Him.Psalms 56:5–6All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.John 18:19–24Meanwhile, the high priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and His teaching.Psalms 56:6They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.1 Kings 13:4Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.

Evidence2

What the record shows

Caiaphas (Joseph Caiaphas) — attested in contemporary inscriptionwell-supported
Josephus Ant. 18.2.2; ornate ossuary 'Yehosef bar Qayafa' (Jerusalem, 1990); Miriam-daughter-of-Yeshua ossuary (2011) naming the Qayafa priestly family
Biblical figure (High priest at Jesus's trial, AD 18-36/37) identified in extra-biblical epigraphy.
Counterpoint: The ossuary reading is contested. William Horbury questioned the name on orthographic grounds, and Ã‰mile Puech noted that the inscription carries no priestly title and that the tomb itself is modest for a high priest â€” the spelling on the bone box also differs from the form Josephus uses. Ronny Reich and others have defended the identification.
Caiaphas Ossuarywell-supported
Burial cave, Peace Forest (North Talpiot), Jerusalem · Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Counterpoint: William Horbury and Ã‰mile Puech both questioned the identification: the name is spelled unusually, the box carries no priestly title, and the lettering is casually scratched rather than cut by a mason, which is not what one expects for a high priest's family. The excavator Zvi Greenhut and Ronny Reich defend the reading, and most scholars still accept it â€” but not as a settled matter.

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