So the prophets prayed louder and cut themselves with knives and daggers, according to their ritual, until blood flowed.

The beast forced all the people, small and great, rich and poor, slave and free, to have a mark placed on their right hands or on their foreheads.

No one could buy or sell without this mark, that is, the beast's name or the number that stands for the name.

The smoke of the fire that torments them goes up forever and ever. There is no relief day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, for anyone who has the mark of its name."

An evil gang is around me; like a pack of dogs they close in on me; they tear at my hands and feet.

Better to correct someone openly than to let him think you don't care for him at all.

Friends mean well, even when they hurt you. But when an enemy puts his arm around your shoulder---watch out!

Pilate replied, "Do you think I am a Jew? It was your own people and the chief priests who handed you over to me. What have you done?"

It was then almost noon of the day before the Passover. Pilate said to the people, "Here is your king!"

Then Pilate handed Jesus over to them to be crucified. So they took charge of Jesus.