Mark 11:18

When the scribes and the chief priests heard this, they began looking for a way to destroy him, for they were afraid of him, because the entire crowd was astonished at his teaching.

Text-Critical English NT

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 he began to teach the people, saying, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”

19And when evening came, he went out of the city.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:15But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did and the children crying out in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant

Matthew 21:45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus' parables, they knew he was speaking about them.

Mark 1:22The people were astonished at his teaching, because he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes.

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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