(3) And they (a) watched [him], and sent forth (b) spies, which should feign themselves just men, (c) that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and (d) authority of the governor.
(3) The last refuge the false prophets have to destroy the true prophets is to charge them with rebellion and treason against the state.
(a) An appropriate time to take him in.
(b) Whom they had hired deceitfully.
(c) That they might latch on to something he said, and by this forge some false accusation against him.
(d) Put him to death.