John 11:57

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew [it], that they might take him.

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  • Ps 109:4 : 4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I [give myself unto] prayer.
  • John 5:16-18 : 16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. 17 ¶ But Jesus answered them, ‹My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.› 18 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.
  • John 8:59 : 59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
  • John 9:22 : 22 These [words] spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
  • John 10:39 : 39 ¶ Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,

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