Luke 11:54
laying traps for him, so as to seize on anything that he might say.
Open English Bible (US)
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
Psalms 37:32The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to put them to death.
Matthew 22:15Then the Pharisees went away and conferred together as to how they might lay a trap for Jesus in the course of conversation.
Matthew 22:35Then one of them, a Student of the Law, to test him, asked this question –
Mark 12:13Afterward they sent to Jesus some of the Pharisees and Herodians, to set a trap for him in the course of conversation.
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 →