Luke 19:47
And he was teaching daily in the temple; and the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people were seeking to destroy him,
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
48and could not find what they might do; for all the people hung, listening, upon him.
Cross References
Matthew 21:23And when he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said: By what authority doest thou these things; and who gave thee this authority?
Matthew 26:55In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes: Are ye come out as against a robber, with swords and staves, to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye did not lay hold of me.
Mark 11:27And they come again into Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders.
Mark 14:1TWO days after, was the passover, and the feast of unleavened bread; and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
John 7:19Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you keeps the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?
John 8:37I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but 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 →