Luke 19:47

47 And he was teaching every day in the temple [courts], and the chief priests and the scribes and the most prominent men of the people were seeking to destroy him.

Luke 19:47 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 19:47

And he taught daily in the temple
Every day till the passover came, and only in the day; for at night he went out of the city to Bethany, or to the Mount of Olives: some of his discourses in the temple, the parables he delivered, and his disputations with the doctors, are recorded in ( Matthew 21:27-46 ) ( Mark 11:27-12:44 ) :

but the chief priests, and the Scribes, and the chief of the
people;
or "the elders of the people", as the Syriac version renders it; that is, the whole sanhedrim:

sought to destroy him;
met and consulted together how to get him into their hands, and what charges to bring against him, in order to put him to death.

Luke 19:47 In-Context

45 And he entered into the temple [courts] [and] began to drive out those who were selling,

46 saying to them, "It is written, 'And my house will be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"

47 And he was teaching every day in the temple [courts], and the chief priests and the scribes and the most prominent men of the people were seeking to destroy him.

48 And they did not find anything they could do, because all the people were paying close attention to [what] they were hearing from him.

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[courts]" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself