Matthew 21:46

yet, although eager to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowds, who regarded him as a prophet.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

45After listening to these parables, the chief priests and the Pharisees saw that it was about them that he was speaking;

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Cross References

Matthew 21:26But if we say “human,” we are afraid of the people, for everyone regards John as a prophet.’

Luke 7:39When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, ‘Had this man been “the prophet,” he would have known who, and what sort of woman, this is who is touching him, and that she is an outcast.’

John 7:40Some of the people, when they heard these words, said, ‘This is certainly the Prophet!’;

Matthew Henry on Matthew 21:34-46

The Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen. 33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: 34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. 35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more… Read the whole commentary →

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