But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.
Parallel translations
- WEB But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.
- KJV And they were filled with madness; and communed one with 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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Quick answer
The opponents respond to the healing with rage and plot against Jesus. Hardened hearts turn mercy into a motive for murder.
Overview
Rather than being moved by the miracle, the leaders are filled with fury and begin scheming against Jesus. Their reaction reveals how legalism, threatened by grace, can harden into deadly hostility. This growing opposition foreshadows the path that will lead to the cross.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 2:1–2Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- Acts 5:33When the Council members heard this, they were enraged, and they resolved to put the apostles to death.
- Eccl 9:3This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
- Luke 4:28On hearing this, all the people in the synagogue were enraged.
- Acts 4:19But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than God.
- Acts 26:11I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.
- Acts 4:15So they ordered them to leave the Sanhedrin and then conferred together.
- John 11:47Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
- Matt 21:45When the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they knew that Jesus was speaking about them.
- Acts 7:54On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
- John 7:1After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.
- Matt 12:14–15But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.
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