Luke 11:54
52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
53 And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- waiting to catch Him in something He might say.
- KJV
- Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
- WEB
- lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.
- ASV
- laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.
- DARBY
- watching him, [and seeking] to catch something out of his mouth, [that they might accuse him].
- BLB
- lying in wait to catch Him in something out of His mouth.
- ÅB
- for de lurte på ham for å lokke noe ut av hans munn.
- OTB
- og planla å fange Ham i noe Han kunne si.
- B1930
- for de lurte på ham for å lokke noget ut av hans munn.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Mark 12:13
And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
Read in contextMatthew 22:35
Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
Read in contextMatthew 22:15
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
Read in contextPsalms 37:32–33
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
Read in contextLuke 20:20
And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
Read in contextPsalms 56:5–6
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Read in contextMatthew 22:18
But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
Read in contextMark 3:2
And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
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