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Luke 11:54 KJV
Luke · chapter 11 · verse 54
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.Luke 11:54 · King James Version
Luke 11:54 in context
52Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
53And 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:
54Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- somethingtisa certain, a certain one, some, some time, a whileG5100 →
- seekingzēteōto seek in order to find, to seek a thing, to seek [in order to find out] by thinking…G2212 →
- accusekatēgoreōto accuse, before a judge to make an accusation, of an extra-judicial accusationG2723 →
- catchthēreuōto go a hunting, to hunt, to catch in hunting, metaph. to lay wait for, strive to…G2340 →
- mouthstomathe mouth, as part of the body of man, of animals, of fish, etc., since thoughts of a man…G4750 →
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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 public and private was of a piece.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 37-54