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.”^(A)

Being Subject to Authorities

13 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God.^(A)

²⁷ John answered, “No one can receive anything except what has been given from heaven.^(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.^(A)

³⁶ For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.^(A)

²⁸ to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.

¹⁷ Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it commits sin.^(A)

¹³ The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob,^[a] the God of our ancestors, has glorified his servant^[b] Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected in the presence of Pilate, though he had decided to release him.^(A)

⁴¹ Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.^(A)

³⁰ Then they tried to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him because his hour had not yet come.^(A)