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53 When he went out from there, the experts in the law[a] and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly,[b] and to ask him hostile questions[c] about many things, 54 plotting against[d] him, to catch[e] him in something he might say.

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  1. Luke 11:53 tn Or “the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 5:21.
  2. Luke 11:53 tn Or “terribly.”
  3. Luke 11:53 tn For this term see L&N 33.183.
  4. Luke 11:54 tn Grk “lying in ambush against,” but this is a figurative extension of that meaning.
  5. Luke 11:54 tn This term was often used in a hunting context (BDAG 455 s.v. θηρεύω; L&N 27.30). Later examples of this appear in Luke 20.