Others, to test him, began asking for a sign from heaven.

The whole crowd was trying to touch him, because power was coming out from him and healing them all.

The chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find some way to execute Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.

Just then some men showed up, carrying a paralyzed man on a stretcher. They were trying to bring him in and place him before Jesus.

Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,