American Standard Version
"laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth. "
— Luke 11:54, American Standard Version
“Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him. ”
“lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.”
“plotting against him, to catch him in something he might say.”
“Lying in wait for him and seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might accuse him. ”
“And watching him, for a chance to get something from his words which might be used against him.”
“Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him. ”
from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation.
Woe unto you lawyers! for ye took away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
And when he was come out from thence, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press upon him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things;
laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.