¹⁴ But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard this, ^(A)they tore their clothes and ran in among the multitude, crying out

^65 (A)Then the high priest tore his clothes, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! What further need do we have of witnesses? Look, now you have heard His ^(B)blasphemy!

⁵ Do we have no right to take along ^[a]a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, ^(A)the brothers of the Lord, and ^(B)Cephas? ⁶ Or is it only Barnabas and I ^(C)who have no right to refrain from working?

⁴ But the multitude of the city was ^(A)divided: part sided with the Jews, and part with the ^(B)apostles.

⁶³ Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, “What further need do we have of witnesses?

²⁴ Yet they were ^(A)not afraid, nor did they ^(B)tear their garments, the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words.

³ So when I heard this thing, ^(A)I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked out some of the hair of my head and beard, and sat down ^(B)astonished. ⁴ Then everyone who ^(C)trembled at the words of the God of Israel assembled to me, because of the transgression of those who had been carried away captive, and I sat astonished until the ^(D)evening sacrifice.

⁵ At the evening sacrifice I arose from my fasting; and having torn my garment and my robe, I fell on my knees and ^(E)spread out my hands to the Lord my God.

³⁷ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah ^(A)with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.

Isaiah Assures Deliverance^(B)

19 And ^(C)so it was, when King Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with ^(D)sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord. ² Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

⁷ And it happened, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he tore his clothes and said, “Am I ^(A)God, to kill and make alive, that this man sends a man to me to heal him of his leprosy? Therefore please consider, and see how he seeks a quarrel with me.”