Why did the heathen rage, and the nations imagine vain things?

[saying], Let us break through Their bonds, and cast away Their yoke from us.

For many dogs have compassed Me; the assembly of the evildoers has enclosed Me; they pierced My hands and My feet.

For behold, they have hunted after my soul; violent men have set upon me; neither [is it] my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord.

If they should exhort you, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, and let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth:

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When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people plotted against Jesus, so as to put Him to death.

Now it came to pass, on the next day, that their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together at Jerusalem,

And they brought them forward and began to inquire, "By what power or by what name have you done this?"

You shall abstain from every unjust thing: you shall not slay the innocent and righteous, and you shall not justify the wicked for gifts.

And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus says the Lord: Forasmuch as you have slain and taken possession, therefore thus says the Lord, In every place where the swine and the dogs have licked the blood of Naboth, there shall the dogs lick your blood; and the harlots shall wash themselves in your blood.

He that pronounces the unjust just, and the just unjust, is unclean and abominable before God.

But be certain of this, that if you kill me, you shall bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon its inhabitants; for in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.

Behold, the princes of the house of Israel have conspired in you each one with his kindred, that they might shed blood.

In you they have received gifts to shed blood; they have received in you interest and usurious increase; and by oppression you have brought your wickedness to the full, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord.

Her princes in the midst of her are as wolves ravening to shed blood, that they may get dishonest gain.

And you, fill up then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.

Therefore, behold, I send you prophets, wise [men], and scribes: some of them you will kill and you will crucify, and [some] of them you will flog in your synagogues and you will persecute from city to city,

Assuredly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers,

and casting him outside the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes beside the feet of a young man named Saul.

Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, do not charge them with this sin." And having said this, he fell asleep."

You have condemned; you have murdered the just. He does not resist you.

I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.