When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them.
Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.”
And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow.
But when they tried to arrest him, they feared the multitudes, because they held him to be a prophet.
One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you reproach us also.”
The scribes and the chief priests tried to lay hands on him at that very hour, but they feared the people; for they perceived that he had told this parable against them.