"Since when," Amaziah interrupted, "have we made you adviser to the king? Stop talking, or I'll have you killed!" The prophet stopped, but not before saying, "Now I know that God has decided to destroy you because you have done all this and have ignored my advice."

Amaziah then said to Amos, "That's enough, prophet! Go on back to Judah and do your preaching there. Let them pay you for it.

Don't prophesy here at Bethel any more. This is the king's place of worship, the national temple."

So the Pharisees and the chief priests met with the Council and said, "What shall we do? Look at all the miracles this man is performing!

One of them, named Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said, "What fools you are!

Actually, he did not say this of his own accord; rather, as he was High Priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish people,

From that day on the Jewish authorities made plans to kill Jesus.

But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn these men never again to speak to anyone in the name of Jesus."

But Peter and John answered them, "You yourselves judge which is right in God's sight---to obey you or to obey God.

So the Council warned them even more strongly and then set them free. They saw that it was impossible to punish them, because the people were all praising God for what had happened.

"We gave you strict orders not to teach in the name of this man," he said; "but see what you have done! You have spread your teaching all over Jerusalem, and you want to make us responsible for his death!"

They called the apostles in, had them whipped, and ordered them never again to speak in the name of Jesus; and then they set them free.

"The LORD made you a priest in place of Jehoiada, and you are now the chief officer in the Temple. It is your duty to see that every crazy person who pretends to be a prophet is placed in chains with an iron collar around the neck.

Then Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the other arrogant men said to me, "You are lying. The LORD our God did not send you to tell us not to go and live in Egypt.

Baruch son of Neriah has stirred you up against us, so that the Babylonians will gain power over us and can either kill us or take us away to Babylonia."

They assembled before Moses and Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! All the members of the community belong to the LORD, and the LORD is with all of us. Why, then, Moses, do you set yourself above the LORD's community?"

and said, "Sir, we remember that while that liar was still alive he said, 'I will be raised to life three days later.'

As Jannes and Jambres were opposed to Moses, so also these people are opposed to the truth---people whose minds do not function and who are failures in the faith.