Matthew 21:46

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, because they regarded him as a prophet.

Cross References

Proverbs 15:12

Scoffers do not like to be rebuked; they will not go to the wise.

Isaiah 29:1

Woe to Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the festivals run their round.

Matthew 21:11

The crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee.”

Matthew 21:26

But if we say, ‘Of human origin,’ we are afraid of the crowd, for all regard John as a prophet.”

Matthew 21:45

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them.

Matthew 22:1

Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying:

Mark 11:18

And when the chief priests and the scribes heard it, they kept looking for a way to kill him, for they were afraid of him because the whole crowd was spellbound by his teaching.

Luke 7:16

Fear seized all of them, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has risen among us!” and “God has visited his people!”

Luke 7:39

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.”

John 7:30

Then they tried to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him because his hour had not yet come.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil.

Acts 2:22

“Fellow Israelites, listen to what I have to say: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with deeds of power, wonders, and signs that God did through him among you, as you yourselves know—