The Question about Paying Taxes

13 Then they sent to him some Pharisees and some Herodians to trap him in what he said.

The Plot to Kill Jesus

14It was two days before the Passover and the festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus^* by stealth and kill him;

⁵⁵Now the chief priests and the whole council were looking for testimony against Jesus to put him to death; but they found none.

¹¹But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas for them instead.

³¹In the same way the chief priests, along with the scribes, were also mocking him among themselves and saying, ‘He saved others; he cannot save himself. ³²Let the Messiah,^* the King of Israel, come down from the cross now, so that we may see and believe.’ Those who were crucified with him also taunted him.