James 5:6

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Summary

James 5:6

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

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But you humiliate the poor. Are not the rich your oppressors? Is it not they who drag you into court?

But when the tenants saw his son, they said to one another. 'This is his heir! Come on, let us kill him, and get his inheritance!'

This is why I am going to send you prophets, wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and hunt from one town to another;

But the high priests and the elders prevailed on the crowd to ask for Barabbas, and to have Jesus put to death.

They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.

"Men of Israel, listen to what I say. Jesus of Nazareth, as you know, was a man whom God commended to you by the wonders, portents, and signs that God did right among you through him.

But you disowned the Holy, Righteous One. You asked to have a murderer released for you,

you and the people of Israel must all know that it is through the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that he stands here before you well.

Which of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? They killed the men who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and killed??53 you who had the Law given to you by angels, and did not obey it!"

For the people of Jerusalem and their leaders refused to recognize him, and condemned him, thus fulfilling the very utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath,

and he said, 'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to learn his will and to see his Righteous One and hear him speak,

who killed the Lord Jesus and persecuted the prophets and us; who displease God, and in their hostility to all mankind

And he

But I tell you not to resist injury, but if anyone strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other to him too;

Do you suppose I cannot appeal to my Father, and he would at once furnish me more than twelve legions of angels?

But Jesus answered, "Let me do this much!" And he touched his ear and healed him.

and he went back into the governor's house and said to Jesus, "Where do you come from?" But Jesus made no answer.

This was the passage of Scripture that he was reading: "Like a sheep he was led away to be slaughtered, And just as a lamb is dumb before its shearer, He does not open his mouth.

He committed no sin, and deceit was never on his lips.