Luke 19:47
Good News Translation
Every day Jesus taught in the Temple. The chief priests, the teachers of the Law, and the leaders of the people wanted to kill him,

New Revised Standard Version
Every day he was teaching in the temple. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people kept looking for a way to kill him;

Contemporary English Version
Each day, Jesus kept on teaching in the temple. So the chief priests, the teachers of the Law of Moses, and some other important people tried to have him killed.

New American Bible
And every day he was teaching in the temple area. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people, meanwhile, were seeking to put him to death,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he was teaching daily in the temple. And the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people sought to destroy him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he was teaching daily in the temple. And the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people sought to destroy him.

taught.

Luke 21:37,38 And in the daytime, he was teaching in the temple: but at night going out, he abode in the mount that is called Olivet. . . .

Matthew 21:23 And when he was come into the temple, there came to him, as he was teaching, the chief priests and ancients of the people, saying: By what authority dost thou these things? And who hath given thee this authority?

Mark 11:27 And they come again to Jerusalem. And when he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests and the scribes and the ancients.

*etc:

John 18:20 Jesus answered him: I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, whither all the Jews resort: and in secret I have spoken nothing.

the chief priests.

Matthew 26:3,4 Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people, into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas: . . .

Mark 11:18 Which when the chief priests and the scribes had heard, they sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because the whole multitude was in admiration at his doctrine.

Mark 12:12 And they sought to lay hands on him: but they feared the people. For they knew that he spoke this parable to them. And leaving him, they went their way.

Mark 14:1 Now the feast of the pasch and of the Azymes was after two days: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some wile lay hold on him and kill him.

John 7:19,44 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? . . .

John 8:37-40 I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. . . .

John 10:39 They sought therefore to take him: and he escaped out of their hands.

John 11:53-57 From that day therefore they devised to put him to death. . . .

Context
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
46Saying to them: It is written: My house is the house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves. 47And he was teaching daily in the temple. And the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people sought to destroy him. 48And they found not what to do to him: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:55
In that same hour, Jesus said to the multitudes: You are come out, as it were to a robber, with swords and clubs to apprehend me. I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple: and you laid not hands on me.

Mark 14:49
I was daily with you in the temple teaching: and you did not lay hands on me. But that the scriptures may be fulfilled.

Luke 19:48
And they found not what to do to him: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.

Luke 20:19
And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him the same hour: but they feared the people, for they knew that he spoke this parable to them.

Luke 21:37
And in the daytime, he was teaching in the temple: but at night going out, he abode in the mount that is called Olivet.

Luke 19:46
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