Bible verse
Jesus was teaching at the temple every day, but the chief priests, scribes, and leaders of the people were intent on killing Him.
Luke 19:47 · BSB
The verses around it, from Luke 19.
43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.
44 They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
45 Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling there.
46 He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be a house of prayer.’ But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
47 Jesus was teaching at the temple every day, but the chief priests, scribes, and leaders of the people were intent on killing Him.
48 Yet they could not find a way to do so, because all the people hung on His words.
KJV
And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
ASV
And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people sought to destroy him:
ERV
And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people sought to destroy him:
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