saying, "Ah. what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God."

Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to destroy it?"

When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them?"

For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men?s lives, but to save them." And they went to another village.

He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be."