What does Matthew 12:14 mean?

Matthew 12:14 highlights themes such as persecution, opposition, conspiracy when read in context.

How should I apply Matthew 12:14 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.

12How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

13Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.

14Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.

15But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;

16And charged them that they should not make him known:

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John 11:53
This verse shows the culmination of the Pharisees' plots against Jesus.