American Standard Version
"And they were not able to take hold of the saying before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace. "
— Luke 20:26, American Standard Version
“And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.”
“They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.”
“Thus they were unable in the presence of the people to trap him with his own words. And stunned by his answer, they fell silent.”
“And they could not reprehend his word before the people: and wondering at his answer, they held their peace.”
“And they were not able to get anything from these words before the people: but they were full of wonder at his answer, and said nothing.”
“And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.”
But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them,
Show me a denarius. Whose image and superscription hath it? And they said, Cæsar’s.
And he said unto them, Then render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.
And they were not able to take hold of the saying before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.
And there came to him certain of the Sadducees, they that say that there is no resurrection;
and they asked him, saying, Teacher, Moses wrote unto us, that if a man’s brother die, having a wife, and he be childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died childless;