Luke 11:54
laying snares for him, and seeking to catch hold of something from his mouth, that they might accuse him.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
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
Matthew 22:15Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel together how they might lay a snare to entrap him in his discourse.
Matthew 22:35and one of them, a teacher of the law, put a question to him, to make trial of him, and said,
Mark 12:13And they sent unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might entrap him in discourse.
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 →