“And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.”
Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, made their plans. They bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate — the dawn handover to Pilate is necessary because the Sanhedrin's blasphemy conviction cannot be executed without Roman authorization. The bound Jesus communicates the prisoner status of the one who came with authority to bind the strong man (Mark 3:27). Handed him over (paradidōmi) — the betrayal verb applied now to the official transfer.
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