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

Then said Jesus to 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 of the people sought to destroy him,

He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, may that never be.