Luke 19:47
And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, and the scholars sought to destroy him, even the foremost men of the people.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
46saying to them, It is written, My house is a house of prayer, but ye made it a den of robbers.
48And they did not find what they might do, for the people all hung upon him, listening.
Cross References
Matthew 21:23And when he came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him while he taught, saying, By what authority do thou these things? And who gave thee this authority?
Matthew 26:55In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, Did ye come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye did not seize me.
Mark 11:27And they come again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, and the scholars, and the elders come to him.
Mark 14:1Now after two days was the Passover and the unleavened bread. And the chief priests and the scholars sought how, having take him with trickery, they might kill him,
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law, and none of you does the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?
John 8:37I know that ye are Abraham's seed, yet ye seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.
Matthew Henry on Luke 19:42-48
The Doom of Jerusalem Lamented; The Doom of Jerusalem Foretold. 41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not… Read the whole commentary →