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.+

3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the courtyard of the high priest, who was named Caʹia·phas,+ 4 and they conspired together+ to seize* Jesus by cunning* and to kill him. 5 However, they were saying: “Not at the festival, so that there may not be an uproar among the people.”

19 The scribes and the chief priests then sought to get their hands on him in that very hour, but they feared the people, for they realized that he told this illustration with them in mind.+