SEV Biblia, Chapter 26:3
Entonces los príncipes de los sacerdotes, y los escribas, y los ancianos del pueblo se juntaron en el patio del sumo sacerdote, el cual se llamaba Caifs;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 26:3
Verse 3. Then assembled together the chief priests] That is, during the two days that preceded the passover. The high priest, who was called Caiaphas] Caiaphas succeeded Simon, son of Camith, about A. D. 16, or, as Calmet thinks, 25. He married the daughter of Annas, who was joined with him in the priesthood. About two years after our Lord's crucifixion, Caiaphas and Pilate were both deposed by VITELLIUS, then governor of Syria, and afterwards emperor. Caiaphas, unable to bear this disgrace, and the stings of his conscience for the murder of Christ, killed himself about A. D. 35. See Joseph. Ant. b. xviii. c. 2-4.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 3. Then assembled together the chief priests , etc.] About the same time, two days before the passover, that Jesus said these things to his disciples, as is plain from ( Mark 14:1). By the chief priests are meant, either such who had been high priests, or such as were the heads of the twenty four courses of the priests; or rather, the principal men of the priesthood, who were chosen out of the rest, to be members of the great sanhedrim: and the Scribes ; the doctors, of the law, who wrote out copies of the law for the people, and interpreted it to them in a literal way: this clause is left out in the Vulgate Latin, and in Munsters Hebrew Gospel, and in the Arabic and Ethiopic versions, and in the Alexandrian copy, and some others, but is retained in, the Syriac version; and no doubt, but these men had a place in this grand council: and the elders of the people ; these were the civil magistrates; so that this assembly consisted both of ecclesiastics and laymen, as the sanhedrim did, of priests, Levites, and Israelites f1469 : these came unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas ; his name was Joseph, but his surname Caiaphas; a word not of the same original with Cephas, as Camero thought; for these two words begin with different letters, nor are the rest the same. Now, though a king of Israel might not sit in the sanhedrim, yet an high priest might, provided he was sufficiently qualified with wisdom f1470 . The president of this grand council at this time, should be Rabban Gamaliel, Pauls master; unless it was Caiaphas, at whose house they were: how they came to meet at the high priests palace, deserves inquiry; since their proper and usual place of meeting, was a chamber in the temple, called Gazith f1471 , or the paved chamber: now let it be observed, that according to the accounts the Jews themselves give, the sanhedrim removed from this chamber, forty years before the destruction of the temple f1472 ; and which, as Dr. Lightfoot conjectures, was about a year and a half before the death of Christ; and as others say f1473 , four years; at least three years and a half before that time: but then, though the sanhedrim removed from the paved chamber, they met at Chanoth, the sheds, which was a place within the bounds of the temple, in the mountain of the house; and the question still returns, how came it to pass they did not meet there? To me the reason seems to be, that they chose not to meet there, but at the high priests palace, because of privacy, that it might not be known they were together, and about any affair of moment; and particularly this: the high priests house was always in Jerusalem, and he never removed from thence; nor did he go from the temple thither only in the night, or an hour or two in the day; for he had an apartment in the temple, which was called the chamber of the high priest, where he was the whole day f1474 .
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-5 - Our Lord had often told of his sufferings as at a distance, now he speaks of them as at hand. At the same time the Jewish counci consulted how they might put him to death secretly. But it pleased God to defeat their intention. Jesus, the true paschal Lamb, was to be sacrificed for us at that very time, and his death and resurrectio rendered public.
Greek Textus Receptus
τοτε 5119 ADV συνηχθησαν 4863 5681 V-API-3P οι 3588 T-NPM αρχιερεις 749 N-NPM και 2532 CONJ οι 3588 T-NPM γραμματεις 1122 N-NPM και 2532 CONJ οι 3588 T-NPM πρεσβυτεροι 4245 A-NPM του 3588 T-GSM λαου 2992 N-GSM εις 1519 PREP την 3588 T-ASF αυλην 833 N-ASF του 3588 T-GSM αρχιερεως 749 N-GSM του 3588 T-GSM λεγομενου 3004 5746 V-PPP-GSM καιαφα 2533 N-GSM
Vincent's NT Word Studies
3. Palace (aulhn). But the word never means palace in the New Testament. It is the court, the open court or hall, forming the center of an oriental building, and often used as a meeting-place. Rev., court. Wyc., hall.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
26:3 {qen were gathered together the chief priests and elders of the people} (tote sunchthsan hoi archiereis kai hoi presbuteroi tou laou). A meeting of the Sanhedrin as these two groups indicate (cf. #21:23). {Unto the court} (eis ten aulen). The _atrium_ or court around which the palace buildings were built. Here in this open court this informal meeting was held. Caiaphas was high priest A.D. 18 to 36. His father-in-law Annas had been high priest A.D. 6 to 15 and was still called high priest by many.
