Luke 11:54
lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.
World English Bible Catholic
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 watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.
Matthew 22:15Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.
Matthew 22:35One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
Mark 12:13They sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.
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 →