Then the priests and the prophets said to the leaders and to the people, "This man deserves to be sentenced to death because he has spoken against our city. You heard him with your own ears."

Bring a drought on its land and dry up its rivers. Babylonia is a land of terrifying idols that have made fools of the people.

You will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time will come when those who kill you will think that by doing this they are serving God.

"I myself thought that I should do everything I could against the cause of Jesus of Nazareth.

and I was so zealous that I persecuted the church. As far as a person can be righteous by obeying the commands of the Law, I was without fault.