“The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.”
Mark 11:18 (WEB)
Context Reading
16He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple. 17He taught, saying to them,“Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’?But you have made it a den of robbers!” 18The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching. 19When evening came, he went out of the city. 20As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots.