John 8:6
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6 They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger.
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Jeremiah 17:13
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13 O Lord, the hope of Israel,
all who turn away from you will be disgraced.
They will be buried in the dust of the earth,
for they have abandoned the Lord, the fountain of living water.
Luke 10:25
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The Most Important Commandment
25 One day an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus by asking him this question: “Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?”
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Matthew 19:3
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3 Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question: “Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife for just any reason?”
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Amos 5:10
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10 How you hate honest judges!
How you despise people who tell the truth!
Ecclesiastes 3:7
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7 A time to tear and a time to mend.
A time to be quiet and a time to speak.
Psalm 38:12-14
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12 Meanwhile, my enemies lay traps to kill me.
Those who wish me harm make plans to ruin me.
All day long they plan their treachery.
13 But I am deaf to all their threats.
I am silent before them as one who cannot speak.
14 I choose to hear nothing,
and I make no reply.
1 Corinthians 10:9
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9 Nor should we put Christ[a] to the test, as some of them did and then died from snakebites.
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- 10:9 Some manuscripts read the Lord.
Luke 11:53-54
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53 As Jesus was leaving, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees became hostile and tried to provoke him with many questions. 54 They wanted to trap him into saying something they could use against him.
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Mark 10:2
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2 Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question: “Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife?”
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Mark 8:11
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Pharisees Demand a Miraculous Sign
11 When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had arrived, they came and started to argue with him. Testing him, they demanded that he show them a miraculous sign from heaven to prove his authority.
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Matthew 26:63
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63 But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to him, “I demand in the name of the living God—tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God.”
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Matthew 22:35
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35 One of them, an expert in religious law, tried to trap him with this question:
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Matthew 22:18
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18 But Jesus knew their evil motives. “You hypocrites!” he said. “Why are you trying to trap me?
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Matthew 16:1
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Leaders Demand a Miraculous Sign
16 One day the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus, demanding that he show them a miraculous sign from heaven to prove his authority.
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Matthew 15:23
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23 But Jesus gave her no reply, not even a word. Then his disciples urged him to send her away. “Tell her to go away,” they said. “She is bothering us with all her begging.”
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Matthew 10:16
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16 “Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves.
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Amos 5:13
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13 So those who are smart keep their mouths shut,
for it is an evil time.
Daniel 5:5
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5 Suddenly, they saw the fingers of a human hand writing on the plaster wall of the king’s palace, near the lampstand. The king himself saw the hand as it wrote,
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Proverbs 26:17
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17 Interfering in someone else’s argument
is as foolish as yanking a dog’s ears.
Numbers 14:22
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22 not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they have tested me by refusing to listen to my voice.
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