They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.

They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.

David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.

I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whoever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust."

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell -- and great was its fall."