Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.

Bible References

General references

Luke 19:47
Jesus continued to teach each day in the Temple Courts; but the Chief Priests and Teachers of the Law were eager to take his life, and so also were the leading men.
Luke 20:19
After this the Teachers of the Law and the Chief Priest were eager to lay hands on Jesus then and there, but they were afraid of the people; for they saw that it was at them that he had aimed this parable.
Matthew 21:38
But the tenants, on seeing his son, said to each other 'Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and get his inheritance.'
Matthew 26:3
Then the Chief Priests and the Councillors of the Nation met in the house of the High Priest, who was called Caiaphas,
John 11:47
Upon this the Chief Priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the High Council, and said: "What are we to do, now that this man is giving so many signs?
Acts 4:27
There have indeed gathered together in this city against your holy Servant Jesus, whom you has consecrated the Christ, not Herod and Pontius Pilate only, but the nations and the people of Israel besides--