12 And vthey were seeking to arrest him wbut feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they xleft him and went away.
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Mark 11:18
And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.
Luke 19:47–48
And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.
John 7:25
Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom they seek to kill?
John 7:30
So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
John 7:44
Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
Matthew 26:4
and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
Mark 11:32
But shall we say, ‘From man’?”—they were afraid of the people, for they all held that John really was a prophet.
Matthew 22:22
When they heard it, they marveled. And they left him and went away.
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