Thematic Bible: Had powers


Thematic Bible



"That is why I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will whip in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.

I would even punish them frequently in every synagogue and try to make them blaspheme. Raging furiously against them, I would hunt them down even in distant cities.


"I said, "Lord, they themselves know that in every synagogue I kept imprisoning and beating those who believe in you.


They asked him, "You were born a sinner and you are trying to instruct us?" And they threw him out.


His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, since the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.

Yet many people, even some of the authorities, believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not admit it so they would not be thrown out of the synagogue.


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