45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his illustrations, they knew that he was speaking about them.+46 Although they wanted to seize* him, they feared the crowds, because these regarded him as a prophet.+
47 He continued teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the principal ones of the people were seeking to kill him;+48 but they did not find any way to do this, for the people one and all kept hanging on to him to hear him.+