Jesus Claims to Be the Son of God

¹⁶ So the Jewish leaders began harassing^[a] Jesus for breaking the Sabbath rules.

⁴ He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me?”

⁵ “Who are you, lord?” Saul asked.

And the voice replied, “I am Jesus, the one you are persecuting!

²⁰ Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you.

³⁹ Once again they tried to arrest him, but he got away and left them.

Is Jesus the Messiah?

²⁵ Some of the people who lived in Jerusalem started to ask each other, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?

¹⁹ Moses gave you the law, but none of you obeys it! In fact, you are trying to kill me.”

²⁰ The crowd replied, “You’re demon possessed! Who’s trying to kill you?”

¹³ The man didn’t know, for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd.

¹¹ At this, the enemies of Jesus were wild with rage and began to discuss what to do with him.

⁶ At once the Pharisees went away and met with the supporters of Herod to plot how to kill Jesus.

¹³ Then he said to the man, “Hold out your hand.” So the man held out his hand, and it was restored, just like the other one!