Luke 6:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ The scribes and the Pharisees were watching him to see whether he would cure on the Sabbath, so that they might find grounds to bring an accusation against him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ And the scribes and the Pharisees kept watching Jesus to see whether He would [actually] heal on the Sabbath, in order that they might get [some ground for] accusation against Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath; that they might find how to accuse him.

Common English Bible

⁷ The legal experts and the Pharisees were watching him closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath. They were looking for a reason to bring charges against him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ And the scribes and Pharisees observed whether he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might thereby find an accusation against him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ And the scribes and Pharisees watched if he would heal on the sabbath; that they might find an accusation against him.

Luke 6:7 Cross References

Psalm 38:12

Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek to hurt me speak of ruin and meditate on treachery all day long.

Isaiah 29:21

those who cause a person to lose a lawsuit, who set a trap for the arbiter in the gate and undermine justice for the one in the right.

Jeremiah 20:10

For I hear many whispering: “Terror is all around! Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” All my close friends are watching for me to stumble. “Perhaps he can be enticed, and we can prevail against him and take our revenge on him.”

Matthew 5:39

But I say to you: Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also,

Mark 3:2

They were watching him to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him.

Luke 13:14

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the Sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, “There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured and not on the Sabbath day.”

Luke 20:20

So they watched him and sent spies who pretended to be honest, in order to trap him by what he said and then to hand him over to the jurisdiction and authority of the governor.

John 9:16

Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not observe the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And they were divided.