LUKE 20:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
The teachers of the law and the chief priests looked for a way to arrest him immediately, because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people — the parable's transparency produces the immediate arrest impulse. They knew he had spoken this parable against them: the recognition that makes the arrest urgent. But they were afraid of the people: the same constraint as the John's-baptism question — popular opinion protecting Jesus in the temple.
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