and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.'
`But what went ye out to see? -- a prophet? yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet,
and, willing to kill him, he feared the multitude, because as a prophet they were holding him.
and if we should say, From men, we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.'
and seeking to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, seeing they were holding him as a prophet.
and they said, `Not in the feast, that there may not be a tumult among the people.'
And they were seeking to lay hold on him, and they feared the multitude, for they knew that against them he spake the simile, and having left him, they went away;
And thou, child, Prophet of the Highest Shalt thou be called; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, To prepare His ways.
And they reasoned with themselves, saying -- `If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?
And they answered, that they knew not whence `it was',
but the Pharisees, and the lawyers, the counsel of God did put away for themselves, not having been baptized by him.
and many came unto him, and said -- `John, indeed, did no sign, and all things, as many as John said about this one were true;'
then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;