'Holding' in the Bible

and, willing to kill him, he feared the multitude, because as a prophet they were holding him.

and seeking to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, seeing they were holding him as a prophet.

a woman came up to him holding an alabaster flask of very expensive perfumed oil, and poured [it] out on his head [while he] was reclining at table.

At that time they were holding a notorious prisoner named Barabbas.