As Jehu was coming out to his master's attendants, one of them asked him, "Is everything all right? Why did this maniac visit you?" "You know the man and how he speculates," Jehu replied.

The time for your judgment has now come; payday is here and Israel knows it. The prophet is a fool, and the spiritual man is insane. Because of your great sin, the hatred against you is great.

Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also debated with him. Some asked, "What is this blabbermouth trying to say?" while others said, "He seems to be preaching about foreign gods." This was because Paul was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.

As he continued his defense, Festus shouted, "You're out of your mind, Paul! Too much education is driving you crazy!"

Are wise

You already have all you want! You have already become rich! You have become kings without us! I wish you really were kings so that we could be kings with you!

And so, my dear friends, keep on running away from idolatry.

How can you say, "We're wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,' when, in fact, the deceitful pen of the scribe has made it into something that deceives.

We are weak

It was in weakness, fear, and great trembling that I came to you.

For someone is saying, "His letters are impressive and forceful, but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible."

Who is weak without me being weak, too? Who is caused to stumble without me becoming indignant?

but he has told me, "My grace is all you need, because my power is perfected in weakness." Therefore, I will most happily boast about my weaknesses, so that the Messiah's power may rest on me.

since you want proof that the Messiah is speaking through me. He is not weak in dealing with you but is making his power felt among you.

But ye

I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you weren't ready for it. And you're still not ready!

Therefore, whoever thinks he is standing securely should watch out so he doesn't fall.

But we

Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but the discerning man controls his comments.

"He was despised and rejected by others, and a man of sorrows, intimately familiar with suffering; and like one from whom people hide their faces; and we despised him and did not value him.

The person who listens to you listens to me, and the person who rejects you rejects me. The person who rejects me rejects the one who sent me."

Jesus also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves, thinking they were righteous, but who looked down on everyone else:

Therefore, whoever rejects this instruction is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.

General references

I have become a laughingstock to all my people, the object of their taunts throughout the day.

It was in weakness, fear, and great trembling that I came to you.

I am talking to sensible people. Apply what I am saying to yourselves.

Therefore go to him outside the camp and endure the insults he endured.