Luke 11:54
They kept waiting for him to say something wrong for which they could accuse him.
Translation for Translators
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 37:32Those who are evil wait in ambush for righteous people in order to kill them as they walk by.
Matthew 22:15After Jesus said that, the Pharisees met together in order to plan how they could cause him to say something that would enable them to accuse him.
Matthew 22:35One of them was a man who had studied well the laws that God gave Moses. He wanted to see if Jesus could answer his question well or if he would say something wrong. He asked him,
Mark 12:13The Jewish leaders sent to Jesus some Pharisees who thought that the Jews should pay only the tax that their own Jewish authorities required people to pay. They also sent some members of the party that supported Herod Antipas and the Roman government. They wanted to make Jesus say something wrong that would make one of those groups very angry with him.
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 →