Luke 11:54
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
Luke 11:54 in other translations
| BSB | waiting to catch Him in something He might say. |
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| WEB | lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him. |
| ASV | laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth. |
| YLT | laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him. |
| DARBY | watching him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him. |
| BBE | And watching him, for a chance to get something from his words which might be used against him. |
| Webster | Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might accuse him. |
What does Luke 11:54 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 11:53-54
53-54. Exceedingly vivid and affecting. They were stung to the quick--and can we wonder?--yet had not materials for the charge they were preparing against Him. provoke him, &c.--"to harass Him with questions."
Barnes' Notes
That they might accuse him. Before the Sanhedrim, or great council of the nation, and thus secure his being put to death.
From this we may learn--
1st. That faithful reproofs must be expected to excite opposition and hatred. Though the conscience may be roused, and may testify against the man that is reproved, yet that does not prevent his hating the reproof and the reprover.
2nd. We see here the manner in which wicked men endeavour to escape the reproofs of conscience. Instead of repenting, they seek vengeance, and resolve to put the reprover to shame or to death.
3rd. We see the exceeding malignity which men have against the Lord Jesus. Well was it said that he was set for the fall of many in Israel, that thereby the thoughts of many hearts might be revealed! Lk 2:34,35. Men, now, are not by nature less opposed to Jesus than they were then.
4th. We see the wisdom, purity, and firmness of the Saviour. To their souls he had been faithful. He had boldly reproved them for their sins. They sought his life. Multitudes of the artful and learned gathered around him, to endeavour to draw out something of which they might accuse him, yet in vain. Not a word fell from his lips of which they could accuse him. Everything that he said was calm, mild, peaceful, wise, and lovely. Even his cunning and bitter adversaries were always confounded, and retired in shame and confusion. Here, surely, must have been something more than man. None but God manifest in the flesh could have known all their designs, seen all their wickedness and their wiles and escaped the cunning stratagems that were laid to confound and entangle him in his conversation.
5th. The same infinitely wise Saviour can still meet and confound all his own enemies and those of his people, and deliver all his followers, as he did himself, from all the snares laid by a wicked world to lead them to sin and death.
(o) "and seeking" Mk 12:13
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 11:37-54
We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, we must not neglect the smallest matter God has appointed. When any wait to catch something out of our mouths, that they may insnare us, O Lord, give us thy prudence and thy patience, and disappoint their evil purposes. Furnish us with such meekness and patience that we…
Luke 11:54 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Luke 11:54
- Mark 12:13
And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
- Matthew 22:35
Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
- Matthew 22:15
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
- Psalms 37:32-33
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. The Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
- Luke 20:20
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.
- Psalms 56:5-6
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
- Matthew 22:18
But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
- Mark 3:2
And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
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Context
- Luke 11:53
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:
- Luke 11:54
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
Luke 11:54 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Acechándole, y procurando cazar algo de su boca para acusarle. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | lui dressant des pièges, et cherchant à surprendre quelque chose de sa bouche, afin de l’accuser. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | und sie lauerten auf ihn, etwas aus seinem Munde zu erjagen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | insidiantes ei, et quærentes aliquid capere de ore ejus, ut accusarent eum. |