New Revised Standard Version
but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were spellbound by what they heard.

Contemporary English Version
But they could not find a way to do it, because everyone else was eager to listen to him.

New American Bible
but they could find no way to accomplish their purpose because all the people were hanging on his words.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they found not what to do to him: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.

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

could.

Luke 20:19,20 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 22:2-4 And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put Jesus to death: but they feared the people. . . .

Matthew 22:15,16 Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech. . . .

were very attentive to hear him.

Nehemiah 8:3 And he read it plainly in the street that was before the water gate, from the morning until midday, before the men, and the women, and all those that could understand: and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book.

John 7:46-49 The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man. . . .

Acts 16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, did hear: whose heart the Lord opened to attend to those things which were said by Paul.