While my bones were breaking, they that afflicted me reproached me; while they said to me daily, Where is your God?

Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the [wife] of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and they were mocking Him.

And He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. Because that which is exalted among men is an abomination before God.

And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness, that He might afflict you, and try you, and that the things in your heart might be made manifest, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

And princes in Issachar were with Deborah and Barak, thus she sent Barak on his feet in the valleys into the portions of Reuben; great [pangs] reached to the heart.

Why did they sit between the sheep folds to hear the bleating of flocks for the divisions of Reuben? [There were] great searchings of heart.

But the Pharisees, having heard, said, "This [Man] does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, ruler of the demons."

And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.

He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.

And whoever says a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age, or in the coming [one].

Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would have loved Me, for I came forth and have come from God; nor have I come from Myself, but He sent Me.

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you desire to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own [resources], for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me?

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse concerning their sin.

If I had not done the works among them which no one else has done, they would have no sin; but now they have both seen and they have hated both Me and My Father.

You have neither part nor portion in this word, for your heart is not straight before God.

For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and the bond of unrighteousness."

For there must also be sects among you, in order that those who are approved may become recognized among you.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but [they went out] in order that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.