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You have condemned and murdered the righteous one, who does not resist you.

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22 “He committed no sin,
    and no deceit was found in his mouth.”

23 When he was abused, he did not return abuse; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly.(A)

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You want something and do not have it, so you commit murder. And you covet[a] something and cannot obtain it, so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have because you do not ask.

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  1. 4.2 Or you murder and you covet

32 Now the passage of the scripture that he was reading was this:

“Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter,
    and like a lamb silent before its shearer,
        so he does not open his mouth.(A)

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He entered his headquarters again and asked Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.(A) 10 Pilate therefore said to him, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you and power to crucify you?” 11 Jesus answered him, “You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”(B)

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51 But Jesus said, “No more of this!” And he touched his ear and healed him. 52 Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple police, and the elders who had come for him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs as though I were a rebel?(A) 53 When I was with you day after day in the temple, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your hour and the power of darkness!”(B)

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39 But I say to you: Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also,(A)

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He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
    yet he did not open his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter
    and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
    so he did not open his mouth.(A)

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38 but my righteous one will live by faith.
    My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back.”(A)

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15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets[a] and drove us out; they displease God and oppose everyone(A) 16 by hindering us from speaking to the gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they have constantly been filling up the measure of their sins, but wrath[b] has overtaken them at last.[c](B)

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  1. 2.15 Other ancient authorities read their own prophets
  2. 2.16 Other ancient authorities read God’s wrath
  3. 2.16 Or completely or forever

14 Then he said, ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear his own voice,(A)

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10 let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that this man is standing before you in good health by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,[a] whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead.(A) 11 This Jesus[b] is

‘the stone that was rejected by you, the builders;
    it has become the cornerstone.’[c](B)

12 “There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved.”(C)

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  1. 4.10 Gk the Nazorean
  2. 4.11 Gk This
  3. 4.11 Or keystone (in an arch)

14 But you rejected the holy and righteous[a] one and asked to have a murderer given to you,(A) 15 and you killed the author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.(B)

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  1. 3.14 Or innocent

22 “Fellow Israelites,[a] listen to what I have to say: Jesus of Nazareth,[b] a man attested to you by God with deeds of power, wonders, and signs that God did through him among you, as you yourselves know(A) 23 this man, handed over to you according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law.(B)

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  1. 2.22 Gk Men, Israelites
  2. 2.22 Gk the Nazorean

But you have dishonored the poor person. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into the courts?(A)

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27 Because the residents of Jerusalem and their leaders did not recognize him or understand the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, they fulfilled those words by condemning him.(A) 28 Even though they found no cause for a sentence of death, they asked Pilate to have him killed.(B)

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52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.(A)

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They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, an hour is coming when those who kill you will think that by doing so they are offering worship to God.(A) And they will do this because they have not known the Father or me.(B)

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Pilate Hands Jesus Over to Be Crucified

24 So when Pilate saw that he could do nothing but rather that a riot was beginning, he took some water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood;[a] see to it yourselves.”(A) 25 Then the people as a whole answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”(B)

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  1. 27.24 Other ancient authorities read this righteous blood or this righteous man’s blood

20 Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed.(A)

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53 Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?(A) 54 But how then would the scriptures be fulfilled, which say it must happen in this way?”(B)

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34 For this reason I send you prophets, sages, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town, 35 so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

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38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.’(A)

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