54Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
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And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. …
And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 37-54)Christ here says many of those things to a Pharisee and his guests, in a private conversation at table, which he afterwards said in a public discourse in the temple (Matt. 23:1-39); for what he said in public and private was of a piece . He would not say that in a corner which he durst not repeat and stand to in the great congregation; nor would he give those reproofs to any sort of sinners in gen…
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