Luke 11:54 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵⁴Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

Luke 11:54 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Mark 12:13
And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
Matthew 22:35
Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
Matthew 22:15
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
Psalms 56:5-6
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. …
Luke 20:20
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.

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Bigotry Intolerance, Religious Martyrdom Persecution Pharisees Self-Righteousness

Commentary

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 gene…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 54)

53-54. Exceedingly vivid and affecting. They were stung to the quick--and can we wonder?--yet had not materials for the charge they were preparing against Him. provoke him, &c.--“to harass Him with questions.”