And, having watched him, they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor,

How

And if he came to see -- vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out -- at the street he speaketh.

All the day they wrest my words, Concerning me all their thoughts are for evil,

A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.

For, lo, they laid wait for my soul, Assembled against me are strong ones, Not my transgression nor my sin, O Jehovah.

Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

For I have heard the evil report of many, Fear is round about: 'Declare, and we declare it,' All mine allies are watching for my halting, 'Perhaps he is enticed, and we prevail over him, And we take our vengeance out of him.'

And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things,

for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls -- being faint.

General references

even their numbered ones are eight thousand and five hundred and eighty;

And the Pharisees having been gathered together, Jesus did question them,