Thematic Bible: Against Christ
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Plots laid » Against Christ
But the Pharisees left and began discussing together how they could arrange to kill Him.
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They were taking counsel together as to how they might take Jesus by trickery and kill Him.
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Now when morning came, all the leading priests and the elders of the [Jewish] people conferred together against Jesus as to how they might put Him to death.
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But the experts in the law of Moses and the Pharisees became furious and began discussing among themselves what they could do to Jesus.
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And Jesus was teaching in the Temple every day. But the leading priests and the experts in the law of Moses and the leading men of the people were looking [for a way] to kill Him,
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So, he left [probably the house of Simon, the man healed of an infectious skin disease. See Matt. 26:6-13] and went and discussed with the leading priests and captains [i.e., of the Temple guard] how he could turn Jesus over to them.
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So, for this reason the Jews began persecuting Jesus, because He did these [kinds of] things on the Sabbath day.
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So, the leading priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council [Note: This was the Jewish governing body called "the Sanhedrin"] and said, "What should we do, for this man is performing many [miraculous] signs?
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So, from that day onward, the Jewish authorities began plotting [how] to kill Jesus.
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Plotting » Against Christ
But the Pharisees left and began discussing together how they could arrange to kill Him.
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They were taking counsel together as to how they might take Jesus by trickery and kill Him.
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Now when morning came, all the leading priests and the elders of the [Jewish] people conferred together against Jesus as to how they might put Him to death.
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But the experts in the law of Moses and the Pharisees became furious and began discussing among themselves what they could do to Jesus.
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And Jesus was teaching in the Temple every day. But the leading priests and the experts in the law of Moses and the leading men of the people were looking [for a way] to kill Him,
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So, he left [probably the house of Simon, the man healed of an infectious skin disease. See Matt. 26:6-13] and went and discussed with the leading priests and captains [i.e., of the Temple guard] how he could turn Jesus over to them.
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So, for this reason the Jews began persecuting Jesus, because He did these [kinds of] things on the Sabbath day.
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So, the leading priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council [Note: This was the Jewish governing body called "the Sanhedrin"] and said, "What should we do, for this man is performing many [miraculous] signs?
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So, from that day onward, the Jewish authorities began plotting [how] to kill Jesus.
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Prejudice » Against Christ
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters living here among us?" And they were led to doubt His true identity.
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And He said, "Truly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his own home town.
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They answered him, "Are you from Galilee, too? Search [the Scriptures], and you will see that no prophet will come from Galilee." [Note: They were probably referring to "the prophet" predicted to come by Moses. Deut. 18:15]. {{Most ancient manuscripts do not contain the section from 7:53 through 8:11, or else place it elsewhere in the book.
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Nathaniel replied to him, "Can anything worthwhile come from Nazareth?" [Note: Nazareth had a bad reputation and Jewish writings made no prediction of a prophet coming from that area. See John 7:52]. Philip answered him, "Come and see."
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Profanity » Blasphemy » Against Christ
But the Pharisees said, "He is driving out evil spirits by [the power of] the chief of evil spirits."
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But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, "This man does not drive out evil spirits except by [the power of] Beelzebub, the chief of evil spirits."
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But some of the people said, "He is driving out evil spirits by [the power of] Beelzebub, the chief of evil spirits."
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And they said many other derogatory things against Him.
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Jesus said all this because these experts in the law of Moses had been saying, "He has an evil spirit in him."
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Do they not speak against the honorable name by which you are called? [i.e., the name "Christ" or "Christian"].
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