When he had come into the temple, the chief Kohanim and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, *By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?*
In that hour Yeshua said to the multitudes, *Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me.
The chief Kohanim and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.
It was now two days before the feast of the Pesach and the matzah, and the chief Kohanim and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.
The chief Kohanim and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people--for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.
Yeshua answered him, *I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.