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John 7:32
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John 7:32
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Jesus and the Religious Leaders
32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning Him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take Him.
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John 7:32
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John 7:32
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32 The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.
Acts 5:26
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Acts 5:26
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26 Then the captain went with the officers and brought them without violence, (A)for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.
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Acts 5:26
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Acts 5:26
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26 At that, the captain went with his officers and brought the apostles. They did not use force, because they feared that the people(A) would stone them.
John 18:3
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John 18:3
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3 (A)Then Judas, having received a detachment of troops, and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
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John 18:3
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John 18:3
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3 So Judas came to the garden, guiding(A) a detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests and the Pharisees.(B) They were carrying torches, lanterns and weapons.
John 12:19
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John 12:19
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19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, (A)“You see that you are accomplishing nothing. Look, the world has gone after Him!”
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John 12:19
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John 12:19
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19 So the Pharisees said to one another, “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!”(A)
John 11:47-48
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John 11:47-48
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47 (A)Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, (B)“What shall we do? For this Man works many signs. 48 If we let Him alone like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.”
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John 11:47-48
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John 11:47-48
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47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees(A) called a meeting(B) of the Sanhedrin.(C)
“What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many signs.(D) 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.”
John 7:45-53
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John 7:45-53
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Rejected by the Authorities
45 Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?”
46 The officers answered, (A)“No man ever spoke like this Man!”
47 Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived? 48 Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him? 49 But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”
50 Nicodemus (B)(he who came to [a]Jesus [b]by night, being one of them) said to them, 51 (C)“Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”
52 They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for (D)no prophet [c]has arisen out of Galilee.”
An Adulteress Faces the Light of the World
53 [d]And everyone went to his own house.
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John 7:45-53
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John 7:45-53
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Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders
45 Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”
46 “No one ever spoke the way this man does,”(A) the guards replied.
47 “You mean he has deceived you also?”(B) the Pharisees retorted. 48 “Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?(C) 49 No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law—there is a curse on them.”
50 Nicodemus,(D) who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked, 51 “Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?”
52 They replied, “Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.”(E)
[The earliest manuscripts and many other ancient witnesses do not have John 7:53—8:11. A few manuscripts include these verses, wholly or in part, after John 7:36, John 21:25, Luke 21:38 or Luke 24:53.]
53 Then they all went home,
Luke 22:52-53
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Luke 22:52-53
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52 (A)Then Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and the elders who had come to Him, “Have you come out, as against a (B)robber, with swords and clubs? 53 When I was with you daily in the (C)temple, you did not try to seize Me. But this is your (D)hour, and the power of darkness.”
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Luke 22:52-53
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Luke 22:52-53
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52 Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard,(A) and the elders, who had come for him, “Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come with swords and clubs? 53 Every day I was with you in the temple courts,(B) and you did not lay a hand on me. But this is your hour(C)—when darkness reigns.”(D)
Matthew 23:13
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Matthew 23:13
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13 “But (A)woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
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Matthew 23:13
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Matthew 23:13
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Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees
13 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!(A) You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.(B)
Matthew 12:23-24
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Matthew 12:23-24
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23 And all the multitudes were amazed and said, “Could this be the (A)Son of David?”
24 (B)Now when the Pharisees heard it they said, “This fellow does not cast out demons except by [a]Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons.”
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- Matthew 12:24 NU, M Beelzebul, a Philistine deity
Matthew 12:23-24
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Matthew 12:23-24
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23 All the people were astonished and said, “Could this be the Son of David?”(A)
24 But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul,(B) the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons.”(C)
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