Luke 11:54
“Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.”
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Luke 11:54 Context
52Woe vnto you Lawyers: for ye haue taken away the key of knowledge: ye entred not in your selues, and them that were entring in, ye hindred. 53And as he said these things vnto them, the Scribes and the Pharisees began to vrge him vehemently, and to prouoke him to speake of many things: 54Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
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Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
- King James Version
plotting against Him to catch {Him} in something He might say.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.
- American Standard Version (1901)
And watching him, for a chance to get something from his words which might be used against him.
- Basic English Bible
watching him, [and seeking] to catch something out of his mouth, [that they might accuse him].
- Darby Bible
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might accuse him.
- Webster's Bible
lying in wait to catch some unguarded expression from His lips.
- Weymouth Bible
lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.
- World English Bible
aspiynge hym, and sekynge to take sum thing of his mouth, to accuse hym.
- Wycliffe Bible
laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
- Youngs Literal Bible