²⁶ Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.

¹³ And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.

²¹ So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.

²⁴ Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.

² And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.

¹⁹ And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.

⁶ But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.

⁵ But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.

²⁶ But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.

⁵ And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.