At this, the enemies of Jesus were wild with rage and began to discuss what to do with him.
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.
- 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.
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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 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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