But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.
Parallel translations
- KJV And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
- BSB But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.
- NKJV But they were filled with rage, and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.
- NASB But they themselves were filled with senseless rage, and began discussing together what they might do to Jesus.
- NLT At this, the enemies of Jesus were wild with rage and began to discuss what to do with him.
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- Ps 2:1–2Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
- Acts 5:33But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.
- Eccl 9:3This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
- Luke 4:28They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.
- Acts 4:19But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,
- Acts 26:11Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
- Acts 4:15But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
- John 11:47The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
- Matt 21:45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.
- Acts 7:54Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
- John 7:1After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
- Matt 12:14–15But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.
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