Luke 11:54
lying in wait to catch some unguarded expression from His lips.
Weymouth NT (1912)
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 the Pharisees went and consulted together how they might entrap Him in His conversation.
Matthew 22:35and one of them, an expounder of the Law, asked Him as a test question,
Mark 12:13Their next step was to send to Him some of the Pharisees and of Herod's partisans to entrap Him in 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 →