Luke 11:54
trying to entrap him, and seeking to lay hold on something from his mouth, that they might accuse him.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 22:15Then the Pharisees went and held a consultation, that they might entrap him in his words.
Matthew 22:35And one of them, who was a lawyer, asked him a question, that he might tempt him, saying:
Mark 12:13And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might entrap him in his words.
Matthew Henry on Luke 11:38-54
Woes Denounced on That Generation; The Pharisees and Lawyers Reproved. 37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. 38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. 39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. 40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also? 41… Read the whole commentary →