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Luke 6:11
But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The scribes and Pharisees react immediately after Jesus restores a man’s withered hand on the Sabbath. They turn to one another to plot against Jesus.
The words — ἐπλήσθησαν (eplēsthēsan) means "were filled," describing their sudden saturation with ἀνοίας (anoias), or "rage." διελάλουν (dielaloun) indicates they "were discussing" or conferring with one another.
The thread — This coordinated hostility against a righteous figure echoes the nations plotting in vain in Psalms 2:1 and the council’s rage and death plot in Acts 5:33.
Why it lands — The verse demands recognition that religious authority often meets divine restoration with conspiracy rather than repentance. It requires the reader to identify which alliances they are secretly defending when confronted with grace.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
Cross-references
- Psalms 2:1 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- Acts 5:33 When the Council members heard this, they were enraged, and they resolved to put the apostles to death.
- Ecclesiastes 9:3 This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
- Matthew 21:45 When the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they knew that Jesus was speaking about them.
- John 11:47 Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
- Acts 4:19 But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than God.
- Luke 4:28 On hearing this, all the people in the synagogue were enraged.
- John 7:1 After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.
- Acts 4:15 So they ordered them to leave the Sanhedrin and then conferred together.
- Acts 7:54 On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.