“When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.”
Matthew 21:46 (WEB)
Context Reading
44He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.” 45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them. 46When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.