“He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Luke 19 contains 48 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.