" I know that you are Abraham's descendants, but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.

The wicked plots against the just, And gnashes at him with his teeth.

The wicked watches the righteous, And seeks to slay him.

Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him [who was born] according to the Spirit, even so [it is] now.

not as Cain [who] was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother's righteous.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love [his] brother abides in death.

His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born.

"Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time."

Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male [Child.]

And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

"I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him."

"I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have seen with your father."

"Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw [it] and was glad."

and the father of circumcision to those who not only [are] of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham [had while still] uncircumcised.