2 while the chief priests and the Scribes were contriving how they might kill him, [for they were afraid of the people]
Luke 22:2 Cross References - Thomson
Psalms 2:1-5
1 Why did nations rage? And tribes meditate vain things?
2 The kings of the earth combined; and the chiefs assembled together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, [saying]
3 "Let us break their bands asunder and throw off from us their yoke."
4 He who dwelleth in heaven will laugh them to scorn; the Lord will treat them with derision.
5 Then will he speak to them in his wrath and trouble them with his sore displeasure.
Matthew 12:14
14 Thereupon the Pharisees went out and conspired against him that they might destroy him.
Matthew 21:38
38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir. Come let us kill him and keep possession of his inheritance.
Matthew 21:45-46
Matthew 26:3-5
3 At that time the chief priests, and the Scribes, and the elders of the people, were convened to the court of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
4 and were consulting how they might take Jesus by surprise and kill him.
5 And they said, Not at the festival, that there may not be a tumult among the people.
Luke 19:47-48
Luke 20:19
19 Upon this the chief priests and the Scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, [but they were afraid of the people,] for they knew that he had spoken this parable with a view to them.
John 11:47-53
47 Whereupon the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled the Sanhedrim, and said, What are we doing? Because this man doth many miracles,
48 if we let him go on thus, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both this place and this nation of ours.
49 And one of them, namely, Caiaphas, being chief priest that year, said to them, Are you totally ignorant,
50 and do you not consider that it is better for us that one man die for the people than that the whole nation should perish.
51 Now this he said not merely of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was soon to die for that nation,
52 and not for that nation only, but that he might gather into one body the children of God who were scattered abroad.
53 From that day therefore they consulted together that they might put him to death.
John 11:57
57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had issued an order, that if any one knew where he is, he should give information, that they might apprehend him.
Acts 4:27
27 For indeed against thy holy Child Jesus whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and the tribes of Israel, were gathered together,