Thematic Bible: Of religious courts
Thematic Bible
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They answered and said to him, Thou were born entirely in sins, and thou teach us. And they cast him outside.
They will make you excommunicated from the synagogues. But the hour comes that every man who kills you will presume to be offering service to God.
His parents spoke these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man confessed him as Christ, he should become excommunicated from the synagogue.
Yet, nevertheless, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess, so that they would not become excommunicated from the synagogue,
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- Excommunication
- Fear Of Enemies
- Fear Of Man
- Fear, Of Persecution
- Fearing Other People
- Humiliation