²⁶ Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them, `but' without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

¹³ But of the rest durst no man join himself to them: howbeit the people magnified them;

²¹ And they, when they had further threatened them, let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people; for all men glorified God for that which was done.

⁵ And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

²⁶ But if we shall say, From men; we fear the multitude; for all hold John as a prophet.

⁵ But they said, Not during the feast, lest a tumult arise among people.

⁶ But if we shall say, From men; all the people will stone us: for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.

¹⁹ And the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him in that very hour; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he spake this parable against them.

² And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death; for they feared the people.

²⁴ Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were much perplexed concerning them whereunto this would grow.