"Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk."
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The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
Then the Pharisees went and had a meeting to see how they might make use of his words to take him.
Then went the Pharisees and held a council how they might ensnare him in speaking.
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.
Then the Pharisees having gone, took counsel how they might ensnare him in words,