who by a word make a man out to be an offender, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.

Then they said, "Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words."

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words.

lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.

So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

Herodians

The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.

And he cautioned them, saying, "Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."

Jesus said to them, "Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

General references

that the LORD your God may show us the way we should go, and the thing that we should do."