Saying, Let alone; what to us and thee, Jesus Nazarene? hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy of God.

Then said Jesus to them, I will ask you; What is lawful in the sabbath; to do good, or to do evil? to save the life, or destroy

And his disciples James and John having seen, said, O Lord, wilt thou that we should speak fire to come down from heaven, and destroy them, as also did Elias?

For the Son of man came not to destroy men's souls, but to save them. And they proceeded into another town:

And he was teaching in the day in the temple. And the chief priests and scribes and the first of the people sought to destroy him,

He shall come and destroy these farmers, and give the vineyard to others. And having heard, they said, It may not be.