See, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand. For by the fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill you, you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt my life to take it.

Bloodthirsty men hate one who is blameless and seek the life of the upright.

You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,

We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.

General references

and she told him the same story, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to laugh at me.

And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.