“Let us alone! What business do we have with each other, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

And Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to destroy it?”

for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.”] And they went on to another village.

And He was teaching daily in the temple; but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people were trying to destroy Him,

He will come and destroy these vine-growers and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard it, they said, “May it never be!”