John 9:28

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Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.

They answered, "You were born in utter sin, and are you trying to teach us?" So they excluded him from the synagogue.

The Pharisees answered, "Have you been imposed upon too?

"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and falsely say everything bad of you, on my account.

And the passers-by jeered at him, shaking their heads

we have worked with our hands for a living. When people abuse us, we bless them, when they persecute us, we put up with it,

or thieves or greedy??runkards, abusive people, robbers??ill not have any share in God's kingdom.

He was abused but he did not retort. He suffered but he did not threaten, but committed his case to him who judges justly.

Do not suppose that I will accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser??oses, on whom you have fixed your hopes!

Was it not Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

So they instigated people to say, "We have heard him use abusive language about Moses and about God."

Suppose you call yourself a Jew, and rely on law, and boast about God,

and in the cloud and the sea all, as it were, accepted baptism as followers of Moses,