Then the Pharisees went and consulted together how they might entrap Him in His conversation.

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

Their next step was to send to Him some of the Pharisees and of Herod's partisans to entrap Him in conversation.

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.