For Herode feared Ihon, knowing that he was just and holy, and gave him reverence, And when he heard him he did many things, and heard him gladly.
And when he would have put him to death, he feared the people, because they counted him as a prophet.
But and if we shall say of men, then fear we the people. For all men held Ihon as a prophet.
¶ And the scribes and high priests heard it and sought how to destroy him. For they feared him because all the people marvelled at his doctrine.
And these also are they that are sown on the stony ground: which when they have heard the word, at once they receive it with joy,
He was a burning, and a shining light, and ye would for a season have rejoiced in his light.
They were all amazed, and wondered saying one to another: what meaneth this?
When the chief priest of all and the ruler of the temple, and the high priests heard these things, they doubted of them, whereunto this would grow.