Bible Verses About Malice: The Jewish Leaders Toward Jesus

For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.

And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.

For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.

And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:

Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.