Luke 19:48 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

but they could not find a way to do it, because all the people were listening to Him attentively.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

and could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But they did not discover anything they could do, for all the people hung upon His words and stuck by Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

and they could not find what they might do; for the people all hung upon him, listening.

Common English Bible

However, they couldn’t find a way to do it because all the people were enthralled with what they heard.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But they could not find what to do to him. For all the people were listening to him attentively.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And they found not what to do to him: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.

Luke 19:48 Cross References

Luke 19:47

And Jesus was teaching in the Temple every day. But the leading priests and the experts in the Law of Moses and the leading men of the people were looking [for a way] to kill Him,

Luke 20:1

And it happened on one of the days that Jesus was teaching people in the Temple and preaching the good news, that the leading priests and the experts in the Law of Moses, [along] with the [Jewish] elders, came to Him.

Acts 16:14

A certain woman named Lydia, from the town of Thyatira, who sold purple cloth [for a living], was there. She was a worshiper of God and when she heard us [telling about salvation through Christ], the Lord opened her heart to respond to the message being spoken by Paul.