9 Bible Verses about Snares Laid For Christ

And [when] the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test [him], they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

And Pharisees came up to him [in order to] test him, and asked if it was permitted for a man to divorce his wife for any cause.

Then the Pharisees went {and consulted} so that they could entrap him with a statement.

And the Pharisees came and began to argue with him, demanding from him a sign from heaven [in order to] test him.

And they asked him if it was permitted for a man to divorce [his] wife, [in order to] test him.

And they sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him so that they could catch him unawares in a statement.

plotting to catch him with reference to something {he might say}.

And they watched [him] closely [and] sent spies who pretended they were upright, in order that they could catch him in a statement, so that they could hand him over to the authority and the jurisdiction of the governor.

(Now they were saying this to test him, so that they would have [an occasion] to bring charges against him.) But Jesus, bending down, began to write with [his] finger on the ground, taking no notice.