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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Then the princes said to Baruch, Go, hide, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you are.

Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),

For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Who knows if you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

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

But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!"

and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.

But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.

A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and contended, saying, "We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let's not fight against God!"

But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him.

When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, "This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds."