However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature; but not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

For you see your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many of nobility.

and the low-born of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,

At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank You, Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to babes.

Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed into Him?

And they divided His garments and cast lots.

And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

But the one doing the truth comes to the Light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been worked in God.

Then they said to Him, Where is Your Father? Jesus answered, You know neither Me nor My Father. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also.

And Jesus said, For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.

Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, We see. Therefore your sin remains.

He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, that they should not see with their eyes, that they should not understand with their hearts and be turned, and I should heal them.

Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed into Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, that they might not be put out of the synagogue;

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

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

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

Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they did not know Him, nor even the voices of the Prophets which are read every Sabbath, have fulfilled them in condemning Him.

But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Covenant, which is being done away in Christ.

although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I received mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of Glory shall come in.

Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of Glory shall come in.

And His Name, by faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

And he said, Brethren and fathers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,

My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality.