Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.
After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.