For [it is] better to suffer for doing good, {if God wills it}, than for doing evil.

They answered and said to him, "If this man were not doing evil, we would not have handed him over to you!"

Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to {the deeds he is doing}, disparaging us with evil words. And not being content with these, he does not receive the brothers himself, and he hinders those wanting [to do so] and throws [them] out of the church.