For I heard the slanders of many, Terror is all around! Expose! Yea, let us expose him! Every man of my peace watched for my fall, saying, Perhaps he will be lured away, and we shall prevail against him; and we shall take revenge on him.
Then the presidents and satraps were seeking to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom. But they were not able to find occasion or fault because he was trustworthy. And not any error or fault was found in him.
And watching carefully, they sent spies, pretending themselves to be righteous ones, in order that they might seize upon a word of His, so as to deliver Him up to the power and to the authority of the governor.
But they said this, testing Him, that they may have reason to accuse Him. But bending down, Jesus was writing with the finger in the earth, not appearing to hear.
Therefore some of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because He does not keep the sabbath. Others said, How can a man, a sinful man, do such miraculous signs? And there was a division among them.