Thematic Bible: Had powers


Thematic Bible



Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,

And as I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being furiously enraged at them, I kept pursuing them even to foreign cities.


And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves understand that in one synagogue after another I used to imprison and beat those who believed in You.


They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?” So they put him out.


His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.

Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;