Matthew 26:3-5: Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people assembled at the palace of the highy priest, who was called Caiaphas, and plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him. But they said, Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.
Archeology has recently uncovered the remains of Caiaphas, dating from the first century. He was found in an ossiary--a small box that would have the name of the deceased and the bones of that one. They had died many years before, but tombs were rotated, and the bones remaiining would be removed and placed in a small stone box.
In John 18:13 we find that Caiaphas fololowed his father in law, Annas. Probably both were extremely corrupt, getting money from all the buying and selling that was going on in the Temple Complex. It has been determined that Caiaphas served in the position of High Priest from AD 18-36. He hated Jesus, whose ministry falls within that time frame. Jesus was against the money changers in the Temple, and Jesus offered the people a Kingdom that was not supportive of the system that Caiaphas had established. Caiaphas leads the charge ther to take and kill Jesus.
His only caution to the Jewish leaders who had long decided that Jesus must die was that they do not do it while the town is bursting with people there celebrating the Passover. That admonition will not be observed, because God's plan was that Christ would die on Passover.
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