⁴⁵ And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.

⁴⁶ But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.

¹⁸ And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.

²⁵ Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?

³⁰ Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

⁴⁴ And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.