They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him.
When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him,
The wicked watches for the righteous and seeks to put him to death.
The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him,
And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.
So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.
For I hear the whispering of many— terror on every side!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.’ And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’
When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’
In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer.
He turned their hearts to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.
They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.
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