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

But Jesus, aware of their malice, asked, “Why are you testing Me, you hypocrites?

Presently a party of Pharisees come to Him with the question--seeking to entrap Him, "May a man divorce his wife?"

They sent some Pharisees and Herodians to him to entrap him in argument.

plotting, as if in ambush, to entrap Him in something that might fall from His lips.

But this they said, trying to entrap him, that they might have ground of accusation against him. But Jesus stooping down, with his finger wrote on the ground.

For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.

Yet I hold it somewhat against you that you have among you some adherents of the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entrap the children of Israel into eating meat that had been sacrificed to idols, and into immoral practices.