Mark 11:18

When the Chief Priests (Jewish ceremony leaders) and the law teachers heard what Jesus said, they were very angry. They started to think about how they could kill Jesus but they were frightened of him. They could see how happy and excited the people were when Jesus was teaching them.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

17Then Jesus started to teach the people. He said, “A long time ago God told 2 men to write down these words in his book. They wrote, ‘I want my house to be a place where people from every tribe can come and pray.’ But you have made my house to be like a place where robbers hide.”

19Later that day, when the sun started to go down, Jesus and his followers left Jerusalem and went back to Bethany. And you can read this story in Matthew 21:20-22

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Cross References

Mark 1:22When the people heard him, it was like they were listening to God himself talking to them. Jesus said strong and straight words, and the people were amazed. The Jewish law teachers did not teach like that.

Matthew Henry on Mark 11:13-27

The Barren Fig-Tree Cursed. 12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: 13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. 14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it. 15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the… Read the whole commentary →

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