Matthew 14:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and, willing to kill him, he feared the multitude, because as a prophet they were holding him.

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  • Matt 11:9 : 9 `But what went ye out to see? -- a prophet? yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet,
  • Matt 21:26 : 26 and if we should say, From men, we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.'
  • Matt 21:32 : 32 for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last -- to believe him.
  • Mark 6:19-20 : 19 and Herodias was having a quarrel with him, and was willing to kill him, and was not able, 20 for Herod was fearing John, knowing him a man righteous and holy, and was keeping watch over him, and having heard him, was doing many things, and hearing him gladly.
  • Mark 11:30-32 : 30 the baptism of John -- from heaven was it? or from men? answer me.' 31 And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, `If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him? 32 But if we may say, From men,' -- they were fearing the people, for all were holding John that he was indeed a prophet;
  • Mark 14:1-2 : 1 And the passover and the unleavened food were after two days, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by guile, having taken hold of him, they might kill him; 2 and they said, `Not in the feast, lest there shall be a tumult of the people.'
  • Luke 20:6 : 6 and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.'
  • Acts 4:21 : 21 And they having further threatened `them', let them go, finding nothing how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which hath been done,
  • Acts 5:26 : 26 then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;

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  • Mark 6:14-28
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    14And the king Herod heard, (for his name became public,) and he said -- `John the Baptist out of the dead was raised, and because of this the mighty powers are working in him.'

    15Others said -- `It is Elijah,' and others said -- `It is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.'

    16And Herod having heard, said -- `He whom I did behead -- John -- this is he; he was raised out of the dead.'

    17For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her,

    18for John said to Herod -- `It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;'

    19and Herodias was having a quarrel with him, and was willing to kill him, and was not able,

    20for Herod was fearing John, knowing him a man righteous and holy, and was keeping watch over him, and having heard him, was doing many things, and hearing him gladly.

    21And a seasonable day having come, when Herod on his birthday was making a supper to his great men, and to the chiefs of thousands, and to the first men of Galilee,

    22and the daughter of that Herodias having come in, and having danced, and having pleased Herod and those reclining (at meat) with him, the king said to the damsel, `Ask of me whatever thou wilt, and I will give to thee,'

    23and he sware to her -- `Whatever thou mayest ask me, I will give to thee -- unto the half of my kingdom.'

    24And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;'

    25and having come in immediately with haste unto the king, she asked, saying, `I will that thou mayest give me presently, upon a plate, the head of John the Baptist.'

    26And the king -- made very sorrowful -- because of the oaths and of those reclining (at meat) with him, would not put her away,

    27and immediately the king having sent a guardsman, did command his head to be brought,

    28and he having gone, beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head upon a plate, and did give it to the damsel, and the damsel did give it to her mother;

  • Matt 14:6-11
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    79%

    6But the birthday of Herod being kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and did please Herod,

    7whereupon with an oath he professed to give her whatever she might ask.

    8And she having been instigated by her mother -- `Give me (says she) here upon a plate the head of John the Baptist;

    9and the king was grieved, but because of the oaths and of those reclining with him, he commanded `it' to be given;

    10and having sent, he beheaded John in the prison,

    11and his head was brought upon a plate, and was given to the damsel, and she brought `it' nigh to her mother.

  • Matt 14:1-4
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    1At that time did Herod the tetrarch hear the fame of Jesus,

    2and said to his servants, `This is John the Baptist, he did rise from the dead, and because of this the mighty energies are working in him.'

    3For Herod having laid hold on John, did bind him, and did put him in prison, because of Herodias his brother Philip's wife,

    4for John was saying to him, `It is not lawful to thee to have her,'

  • Matt 21:46
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    46and seeking to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, seeing they were holding him as a prophet.

  • Luke 3:19-20
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    19and Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him concerning Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, and concerning all the evils that Herod did,

    20added also this to all, that he shut up John in the prison.

  • Luke 9:9
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    9and Herod said, `John I did behead, but who is this concerning whom I hear such things?' and he was seeking to see him.

  • Mark 11:32
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    32But if we may say, From men,' -- they were fearing the people, for all were holding John that he was indeed a prophet;

  • Luke 9:7
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    7And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things being done by him, and was perplexed, because it was said by certain, that John hath been raised out of the dead;

  • Luke 22:2
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    2and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they may take him up, for they were afraid of the people.

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    26and if we should say, From men, we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.'

  • Luke 23:15
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    15no, nor yet Herod, for I sent you back unto him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is having been done by him;

  • Luke 23:7-9
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    71%

    7and having known that he is from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him back unto Herod, he being also in Jerusalem in those days.

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    9and was questioning him in many words, and he answered him nothing.

  • Acts 12:19
    70%

    19and Herod having sought for him, and not having found, having examined the guards, did command `them' to be led away to punishment, and having gone down from Judea to Cesarea, he was abiding `there'.

  • Acts 12:1-2
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    1And about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands, to do evil to certain of those of the assembly,

    2and he killed James, the brother of John, with the sword,

  • Mark 11:18
    69%

    18And the scribes and the chief priests heard, and they were seeking how they shall destroy him, for they were afraid of him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching;

  • Matt 4:12
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    12And Jesus having heard that John was delivered up, did withdraw to Galilee,

  • Mark 14:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1And the passover and the unleavened food were after two days, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by guile, having taken hold of him, they might kill him;

    2and they said, `Not in the feast, lest there shall be a tumult of the people.'

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    3And Herod the king having heard, was stirred, and all Jerusalem with him,

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    8When, therefore, Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid,

  • Matt 26:5
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    5and they said, `Not in the feast, that there may not be a tumult among the people.'

  • Luke 20:6
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    6and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.'

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    6And at every feast he was releasing to them one prisoner, whomsoever they were asking;