¹⁸ And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and ^(A)were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because ^(B)all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.

^47 (A)And he was teaching daily in the temple. ^(B)The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, ⁴⁸ but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.

Can This Be the Christ?

²⁵ Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom ^(A)they seek to kill?

^30 (A)So they were seeking to arrest him, but ^(B)no one laid a hand on him, ^(C)because his hour had not yet come.

^44 (A)Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

^4 (A)and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.