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The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false testimony against Jesus so that they could put him to death,

The chief priests and the scribes heard it and started looking for a way to kill him. For they were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was astonished by his teaching.

They were looking for a way to arrest him but feared the crowd because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. So they left him and went away.

It was two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a cunning way to arrest Jesus and kill him.

The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for testimony against Jesus to put him to death, but they could not find any.

When it was day, he went out and made his way to a deserted place. But the crowds were searching for him. They came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them.

Just then some men came, carrying on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed. They tried to bring him in and set him down before him.

And others, as a test, were demanding of him a sign from heaven.

Every day he was teaching in the temple. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people were looking for a way to kill him,

The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put him to death, because they were afraid of the people.

Therefore, the Jews began persecuting Jesus[fn] because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him: Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since he did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill him.

The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, “Where is he? ”

“Rabbi,” the disciples told him, “just now the Jews tried to stone you, and you're going there again? ”

They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? He won't come to the festival, will he? ”

But the Jews became jealous, and they brought together some wicked men from the marketplace, formed a mob, and started a riot in the city. Attacking Jason's house, they searched for them to bring them out to the public assembly.