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Matthew 12:14

Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.

KJV

ἐξελθόντες δὲ οἱ Φαρισαῖοι συμβούλιον ἔλαβον κατ’ αὐτοῦ, ὅπως αὐτὸν ἀπολέσωσιν.

Greek NT

Exeuntes autem pharisæi, consilium faciebant adversus eum, quomodo perderent eum.

Vulgate

But the Pharisees went out, and took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.

ASV

And the Pharisees going out made a consultation against him, how they might destroy him.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Φαρισαῖος
pharisaios
noun · 101×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
λαμβάνω
lambano
verb · 259×
συμβούλιον
sumboulion
noun · 8×
ἀπόλλυμι
apollumi
verb · 90×
ἐξέρχομαι
exerchomai
verb · 221×
o
article · 19778×
ὅπως
opos
adverb · 53×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: ἐξελθόντες δὲ οἱ Φαρισαῖοι συμβούλιον ἔλαβον κατ᾽ αὐτοῦ | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐξελθόντες δὲ οἱ Φαρισαῖοι … αὐτοῦ | RP: Οἱ δὲ Φαρισαῖοι … αὐτοῦ ἐξελθόντες
  • ἐξελθόντες δὲ οἱ Φαρισαῖοι συμβούλιον ἔλαβον κατ᾽ αὐτοῦSBLGNT
  • ἐξελθόντες δὲ οἱ Φαρισαῖοι … αὐτοῦWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • Οἱ δὲ Φαρισαῖοι … αὐτοῦ ἐξελθόντεςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

2. After this, lest any one should suppose His words to be a mere accusation, and lest men should say, Being our enemy He is bringing these charges and calumnies against us; He introduces the prophet also, pronouncing the same judgment as Himself. For in them is fulfilled, says He, the prophecy of Esaias, which says, By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand, and seei…

Cross-references

  • Dan 6:7 — All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever sh
  • John 5:18 — 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 7:19 — Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
  • John 10:39 — Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
  • John 11:53 — Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.
  • Luke 6:11 — And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
  • Mark 3:6 — And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
  • Mark 3:6 — And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
  • Mark 14:1 — 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.
  • Matt 26:4 — And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
  • Matt 26:4 — And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.