Luke 11:54
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
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Barnes' Notes
Laying wait for him - Or, rather, laying “snares” for him It means that they endeavored to entangle him in his talk; that they did as men do who catch birds - who lay snares, and deceive them, and…
Christ here says many of those things to a Pharisee and his guests, in a private conversation at table, which he afterwards said in a public discourse in the temple (Mt. 23); for what he said in…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
to catch Literally, "to hunt."They were members of a body of a sort of -commission of enquiry" which had been sent from Jerusalem for this express purpose, Mar 12:13.
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