since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak toward you but is powerful among you.

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'

"Simon, Simon, pay attention! Satan has demanded to have you all, to sift you like wheat,

But they were insistent, demanding with loud shouts that he be crucified. And their shouts prevailed.

So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted.

I am not trying to get praise for myself. There is one who demands it, and he also judges.

For Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks ask for wisdom,