Matthew 26:59

⁵⁹Principes autem sacerdotum et omne concilium quaerebant falsum testimonium contra Iesum, ut eum morti traderent,

Matthew 26 marks the pivot from Jesus’ public ministry to his passion. The chapter opens with the religious leaders plotting his death, then moves through a series of intimate and agonizing scenes: the anointing at Bethany, Judas’s betrayal, the Last Supper, Gethsemane, the arrest,