⁴ and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill `him',

¹ And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?'

² Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:

¹⁴ And the Pharisees having gone forth, held a consultation against him, how they might destroy him,

³³ `Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?

¹⁹ this one, having dealt subtilely with our kindred, did evil to our fathers, causing to expose their babes, that they might not live;

¹⁰ said, `O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord?

³ and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that `is' in the Christ;