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The course pursued by the enemies of our Lord does not seem strange to anyone who knows anything of the surveillance which a Hindoo uris establishes over anyone whose sayings or doings it may be of importance for him to know. For instance, Major T —, the agent for the Viceroy at the court of the Nawab Moorshedabad, complains that his house is as full of spies as it is of servants, nearly all of whom, he suspects, are in the pay of the Nawab. One servant, who pretended not to know a word of English, was discovered at length to know it well, and great was the major's disgust at the discovery; for this man was in attendance at the table, where of course he would have ample opportunities of hearing his master's opinions expressed in all the confidence of social intercourse. One of the punkah bearers, too, was found to be a quite well-to-do man. His position was a most menial one, yet its duties took him within sight and hearing of his master many times in the day. It was suspected that the Nawab was making it worth his while to submit to the drudgery of so mean a post.

(A Missionary's Notes.)

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KJV: And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.

WEB: They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.