The priests and elders who plot against Jesus determine not to do it during the Passover, to avoid an “uproar” (26:5). The word is used only one other time in Matthew, to describe the “uproar” among the Jews who are rioting in front of Pilate’s Praetorium (27:24). Because of the uproar, Pilate washes his hands and delivers Jesus up to the Jews.
So much for the careful plotting, shown to be comically ineffective insofar as it opposes theh Scriptures and the Lord’s “counter-plot.”
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