So they could not seize on what he said before the people, and marvelling at his reply they said nothing.
So watching their chance they sent spies who pretended to be honest persons, in order to seize on what he said and get him handed over to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
For there are plenty of insubordinate creatures who impose on people with their empty arguments, particularly those who have come over from Judaism;
Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God;
As he said this, all his opponents were put to shame, but all the crowd rejoiced over all his splendid doings.
When the Pharisees heard he had silenced the Sadducees, they mustered their forces,
When they heard that they marvelled; then they left him and went away.
So he said to him, 'My man, how did you get in here without a wedding-robe?' The man was speech less.
When Jesus heard that, he marvelled; "I tell you truly," he said to his followers, "I have never met faith like this anywhere in Israel.
lying in ambush to catch a word from his lips.