When He left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile and to question Him closely on many subjects,

“So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,

And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,

having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God, but hostile to all men,