²⁶ then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;

¹³ and of the rest no one was daring to join himself to them, but the people were magnifying them,

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,

⁵ and, willing to kill him, he feared the multitude, because as a prophet they were holding him.

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

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

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.'

¹⁹ And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.

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

²⁴ And as the priest, and the magistrate of the temple, and the chief priests, heard these words, they were doubting concerning them to what this would come;