Psalms 109:3-4

3They encircle me with words of hate,
and attack me awithout cause.
4In return for my love they baccuse me,
but I cgive myself to prayer.
Hebrew  but I am prayer

Matthew 12:14

14But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.

Luke 6:11

11But they were filled with efury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.

Luke 20:19-20

Paying Taxes to Caesar

19 fThe scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people. 20 gSo they hwatched him and sent spies, who ipretended to be sincere, that they might jcatch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of kthe governor.

Luke 22:2

2And the chief priests and the scribes lwere seeking how to put him to death, for they feared the people.

John 11:53

53So from that day on they mmade plans to put him to death.

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