⁵⁴ lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.^(A)

The Question about Paying Taxes

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said.

¹⁶ speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist^[a] to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.

²¹ Saul thought, “Let me give her to him that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time,^[a] “You shall now be my son-in-law.”^(A)

¹⁹ Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”^(A)

³ Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was one of the twelve;^{(A) 4} he went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers of the temple police about how he might betray him to them. ⁵ They were greatly pleased and agreed to give him money.^{(B) 6} So he consented and began to look for an opportunity to betray him to them when no crowd was present.

David Marries Michal

¹⁷ Then Saul said to David, “Here is my elder daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife; only be valiant for me and fight the Lord’s battles.” For Saul thought, “I will not raise a hand against him; let the Philistines deal with him.”^(A)