2And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
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Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. …
And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. …
And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him, …
And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)The year of the redeemed is now come , which had been from eternity fixed in the divine counsels, and long looked for by them that waited for the consolation of Israel. After the revolutions of many ages, it is at length come , Isa. 63:4. And, it is observable, it is in the very first month of that year that the redemption is wrought out, so much in haste was the Redeemer to perform his undertakin…
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