Matthew 22:15
Good News Translation
The Pharisees went off and made a plan to trap Jesus with questions.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said.

Contemporary English Version
The Pharisees got together and planned how they could trick Jesus into saying something wrong.

New American Bible
Then the Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap him in speech.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech.

went.

Psalm 2:2 The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.

Mark 12:13-17 And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians: that they should catch him in his words. . . .

Luke 20:20-26 And being upon the watch, they sent spies, who should feign themselves just, that they might take hold of him in his words, that they might deliver him up to the authority and power of the governor. . . .

how.

Psalm 41:6 And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose.

Psalm 56:5-7 All the day long they detested my words: all their thoughts were against me unto evil. . . .

Psalm 57:6 They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it.

Psalm 59:3 For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me:

Isaiah 29:21 That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them in the gate, and declined in vain from the just.

Jeremiah 18:18 And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremiah: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.

Jeremiah 20:10 For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every side: Persecute him, and let us persecute him: from all the men that were my familiars, and continued at my side: if by any means he may be deceived, and we may prevail against him, and be revenged on him.

Luke 11:53,54 And as he was saying these things to them, the Pharisees and the lawyers began violently to urge him and to oppress his mouth about many things, . . .

Hebrews 12:3 For think diligently upon him that endured such opposition from sinners against himself that you be not wearied, fainting in your minds.

Context
Paying Taxes to Caesar
14For many are called, but few are chosen. 15Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech. 16And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: Master, we know that thou art a true speaker and teachest the way of God in truth. Neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the person of men.…
Cross References
Matthew 12:14
And the Pharisees going out made a consultation against him, how they might destroy him.

Mark 12:13
And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians: that they should catch him in his words.

Luke 20:20
And being upon the watch, they sent spies, who should feign themselves just, that they might take hold of him in his words, that they might deliver him up to the authority and power of the governor.

1 Corinthians 7:35
And this I speak for your profit, not to cast a snare upon you, but for that which is decent and which may give you power to attend upon the Lord, without impediment.

Matthew 22:14
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