James 5:6

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James 5:6

Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

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But you dishonor the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and do they not themselves drag you to the judgment-seats?

But the vine-dressers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and seize upon the inheritance.

For this reason, behold, I send you prophets and wise men and scribes; and some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitude to ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

They will put you out of the synagogues; in deed, the time is coming, when he that kills you, will think that he is offering service to God.

Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazarene, clearly pointed out to you as a man from God, by mighty deeds and wonders and signs, which God did by him in your midst, as you yourselves also know,

But you rejected the Holy and Just One, and demanded that a murderer should be given to you;

be it 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 him does this man stand before you in health.

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? They slew also those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers;

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, be cause they did not know him, nor the words of the prophets, which are read every sabbath-day, have fulfilled them in condemning him.

And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen you, that you should know his will, and see the Just One, and hear the voice of his mouth;

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and do not please God, and are opposed to all men,

And he

But I say to you, Resist not the injurious. But whoever will smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Do you think that I can not now call upon my Father, and he would cause more than twelve legions of angels to stand by me?

And Jesus answered and said: Let this matter proceed thus far. And he touched his ear and healed him.

and he went into the governor's palace again, and said to Jesus: Whence are you? But Jesus gave him no answer.

The passage of the scripture which he was reading, was this: As a sheep for the slaughter was he led; and as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, so opened he not his mouth

He did no sin, nor was guile found in his mouth.