2 And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they may be assassinating Him, for they feared the people."
Luke 22:2 Cross References - CLV
Psalms 2:1-5
1 Why are the nations perturbed? And why do the national groups mumble empty phrases?
2 The kings of the earth are standing by, And the chancellors are gathered together Against Yahweh and against His Anointed, saying,
3 Let us pull away their bonds, And let us fling off their ropes from us.
4 The One sitting in the heavens, He shall ridicule; Yahweh, He shall deride them.
5 Then He shall speak to them in His anger, And in His hot anger He shall fill them with panic, saying,
Matthew 12:14
14 Now, coming, the Pharisees held a consultation against Him, so that they should be destroying Him."
Matthew 21:38
38 Yet the farmers, perceiving the son, said among themselves, 'This is the enjoyer of the allotment. Hither! We should be killing him and have the enjoyment of his allotment.'"
Matthew 21:45-46
Matthew 26:3-5
3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered in the courtyard of the chief priest, who is termed Caiaphas,
4 and they plan that they should be laying hold of Jesus by guile and should be killing Him.
5 Yet they said, "Not in the festival, lest a tumult may be occurring among the people."
Luke 19:47-48
Luke 20:19
19 And the scribes and the chief priests seek to lay hands on Him in this hour, and they were afraid of the people, for they know that He told this parable in regard to them. "
John 11:47-53
47 The chief priests and the Pharisees, then, gathered a Sanhedrin and said, "What are we doing, seeing that this man is doing many signs?
48 If we should be leaving him thus, all will be believing in him, and the Romans will come and take away our place as well as our nation."
49 Now a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being the chief priest of that year, said to them, "You are not aware of anything,
50 neither are you reckoning that it is expedient for us that one man should be dying for the sake of the people and not the whole nation should perish."
51 Now this he said, not from himself, but, being the chief priest of that year, he prophesies that Jesus was about to be dying for the sake of the nation,
52 and not for the nation only, but that He may be gathering the scattered children of God also into one."
53 From that day, then, they consult that they should kill Him."
John 11:57
57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given directions that if anyone should know where He is, he should be divulging it, so that they should be arresting Him."
Acts 4:27
27 For of a truth, in this city were gathered against Thy holy Boy Jesus, Whom Thou dost anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the nations and the peoples of Israel,