Jeremiah 26:15-17

Contemporary English Version

¹⁵ But if you put me to death, you and everyone else in Jerusalem will be guilty of murdering an innocent man, because everything I preached came from the Lord.

¹⁶ The judges and the other people told the priests and prophets, “Since Jeremiah only told us what the Lord our God had said, we don't think he deserves to die.”

¹⁷ Then some of the leaders from other towns stepped forward. They told the crowd that