Jeremiah 26:16

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Summary

Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.

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And the rulers said to Baruch, Go hide yourselves, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you are.

And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, of the eunuchs in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the pit (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),

For if you are completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance shall arise to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house shall be destroyed. And who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for a time like this?

When a man's ways please Jehovah, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

And the governor said, Why? What evil has He done? But they cried out the more, saying, let Him be crucified!

Pilate said to them, You have brought this Man to me as perverting the people. And behold, having examined Him before you, I have found no fault in this Man regarding those things of which you accuse Him;

Then there stood up one in the sanhedrin, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a doctor of the Law honored among all the people. And he commanded the apostles to be put outside a little space.

And there arose a great cry. And the scribes who were on the Pharisees' side arose and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, let us not fight against God.

But I had perceived nothing he had committed worthy of death, and that he himself has appealed to Augustus, I determined to send him,

And withdrawing, they spoke with one another, saying, This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.