15Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
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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. …
And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words. …
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. …
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-22)It was not the least grievous of the sufferings of Christ, that he endured the contradiction of sinners against himself , and had snares laid for him by those that sought how to take him off with some pretence. In these verses, we have him attacked by the Pharisees and Herodians with a question about paying tribute to Caesar. Observe, I. What the design was, which they proposed to themselves; They…
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