But none of the rest dared join them, but the people were magnifying them.

Though desiring to kill him, he feared the crowd, because they counted him as a prophet.

"But if we should say, 'From men,' we fear the crowd, for all consider John as a prophet."

But they said, "Not during the feast, lest a disturbance take place among the people."

But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded [that] John was a prophet."

And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on Him that very hour, but they were afraid--for they knew that He had spoken this parable against them.

And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might kill Him, for they feared the people.