Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with you, you Jesus of Nazareth? are you come to destroy us? I know who you are; the Holy One of God.

Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?

For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.

And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief men of the people sought to destroy him,

He shall come and destroy these tenants, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.