'Feared' in the Bible
Although Herod wanted to kill John, he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.
The chief priests and the experts in the law heard it and they considered how they could assassinate him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed by his teaching.
But if we say, 'From people -- '" (they feared the crowd, for they all considered John to be truly a prophet).
Now they wanted to arrest him (but they feared the crowd), because they realized that he told this parable against them. So they left him and went away.
He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people.
After this, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus (but secretly, because he feared the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he went and took the body away.
When the argument became so great the commanding officer feared that they would tear Paul to pieces, he ordered the detachment to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.