“Exeuntes autem pharisæi, statim cum Herodianis consilium faciebant adversus eum quomodo eum perderent.”
“And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.”
“At this, the Pharisees went out and began plotting with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.”
“The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.”
“And the Pharisees went out, and straightway with the Herodians took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.”
2. The spectators were very unkind, both to the patient and to the Physician; instead of interceding for a poor neighbour, they did what they could to hinder his cure: for they intimated that if Christ cured him now on the sabbath day, they would accuse him as a Sabbath breaker. It had been very unreasonable, if they should have opposed a physician or surgeon in helping any poor body in misery, by ordinary methods; but much more absurd was it to oppose him that cured without any labour, but by a word's speaking.
Verses 6-12 All our sicknesses and calamities spring from the anger of God against our sins. Their removal, or the making them blessings to us, was purchased to us by the blood of Christ. But the plagues and diseases of our souls, of our hearts, are chiefly to be dreaded; and He can heal them also by a word. May more and more press to Christ to be healed of these plagues, and to be delivered from the enemies of their souls.