John 9:28

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

"You," they retorted, "were born totally depraved; and are you trying to teach us?" So they expelled him.

"What! Have you been led astray too?" the Pharisees replied.

Blessed are you when people taunt you, and persecute you, and say everything evil about you--untruly, and on my account.

The passers-by railed at him, shaking their heads as they said:

We work hard, toiling with our own hands. We meet abuse with blessings, we meet persecution with endurance,

Or a thief, or covetous, or a drunkard, or abusive, or grasping, will have any share in God's Kingdom.

He was abused, but he did not answer with abuse; he suffered, but he did not threaten; he entrusted himself to him whose judgments are just.

Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; your accuser is Moses, on whom you have been resting your hopes.

Was not it Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys it! Why are you seeking to put me to death?"

Then they induced some men to assert that they had heard Stephen saying blasphemous things against Moses, and against God;

But, perhaps, you bear the name of 'Jew,' and are relying upon Law, and boast of belonging to God, and understand his will,

That in the cloud and in the sea they all underwent baptism as followers of Moses;