But you have dishonored the poor. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into court?

"But when the farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and let us gain possession of his inheritance.'

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,

so that on you may come all the righteous blood being shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Barabbas, but they should destroy Jesus.

And Pilate, seeing that nothing was being gained, but rather a riot was starting, taking water, he washed his hands clean in front of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this just [Man]. You see to it."

And all the people answered and said, "His blood [be] on us and on our children."

They will excommunicate you; but a time is coming when everyone who kills you will think that he is offering God a service.

And these things they will do [to you] because they did not know the Father nor Me.

"Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves also know--

Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you took, and by lawless hands, nailing [Him] to a cross, you killed [Him];

But you denied the Holy and Just One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by this [name] this [man] stands here before you whole.

Nor is there salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven which has been given among men by which we must be saved."

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,

For those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they did not know Him, nor the voices of the Prophets which are being read according to each Sabbath, condemning [him], they fulfilled [the Scriptures].

And finding no cause for death, they asked Pilate that He be executed.

And he said, 'The God of our fathers has chosen you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and hear the voice from His mouth.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God and are against all men,

forbidding us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved, so as always to fill up [the measure of] their sins; but the wrath [of God] has come upon them to the uttermost.

And He, because of His affliction, opened not His mouth; He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He opened not His mouth.

But I say to you not to resist an evil person. But whoever shall slap you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Or do you think that I cannot now call upon My Father, and He will furnish Me with more than twelve legions of angels?

How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?"

But Jesus answered and said, "Stop right there." And touching his ear, He healed him.

When I was with you daily in the temple, you did not try to seize Me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."

and he entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where are You from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.

Jesus answered, "You would have no authority at all against Me unless it had been given to you from above. Therefore the one who betrayed Me to you has a greater sin."

Now the portion of the Scripture which he was reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, thus He opened not His mouth.

"Who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth";

who, being verbally abused, did not return verbal insults, when [He] suffered, [He] did not threaten, but committed [Himself] to Him who judges righteously;