Matthew 27:1

1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

Ver. 1. When the morning was come ] They had broken their sleep the night before, and yet were up and at it early the next morning, so soon as the day peeped ( ως εγενετο ημερα ), Luke 22:66 . So sedulous are the devil’s servants. Esau began to bustle with Jacob even in the very womb, that no time might be lost.