11:53 When he went out from there, the experts in the law 1 and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, 2 and to ask him hostile questions 3 about many things, 11:54 plotting against 4 him, to catch 5 him in something he might say.
1 tn Or “the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 5:21.
2 tn Or “terribly.”
3 tn For this term see L&N 33.183.
4 tn Grk “lying in ambush against,” but this is a figurative extension of that meaning.
5 tn This term was often used in a hunting context (BDAG 455 s.v. θηρεύω; L&N 27.30). Later examples of this appear in Luke 20.