John 8:6
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6 They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
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Jeremiah 17:13
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13 O hope of Israel! O Lord!
All who forsake you shall be put to shame;
those who turn away from you[a] shall be recorded in the underworld,[b]
for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, the Lord.(A)
Luke 10:25
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The Parable of the Good Samaritan
25 An expert in the law stood up to test Jesus.[a] “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”(A)
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Matthew 19:3
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3 Some Pharisees came to him, and to test him they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?”(A)
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Ecclesiastes 3:7
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7 a time to tear and a time to sew;
a time to keep silent and a time to speak;(A)
1 Corinthians 10:9
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9 We must not put Christ[a] to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents.(A)
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Matthew 22:18
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18 But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why are you putting me to the test, you hypocrites?
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Luke 20:20-23
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The Question about Paying Tribute
20 So they watched him and sent spies who pretended to be honest, in order to trap him by what he said and then to hand him over to the jurisdiction and authority of the governor. 21 So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are right in what you say and teach, and you show deference to no one but teach the way of God in accordance with truth.(A) 22 Is it lawful for us to pay tribute to Caesar or not?” 23 But he perceived their craftiness and said to them,
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Luke 11:53-54
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53 When he went outside, the scribes and the Pharisees became hostile to him and began to interrogate him about many things, 54 lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.(A)
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Mark 10:2
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2 Some,[a] testing him, asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
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Mark 8:11
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The Demand for a Sign
11 The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, asking him for a sign from heaven, to test him.(A)
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Matthew 26:63
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63 But Jesus was silent. Then the high priest said to him, “I put you under oath before the living God, tell us if you are the Messiah,[a] the Son of God.”(A)
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Matthew 22:35
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35 and one of them, an expert in the law, asked him a question to test him.(A)
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Matthew 16:1
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The Demand for a Sign
16 The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test Jesus[a] they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.(A)
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Matthew 15:23
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23 But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, “Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us.”
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Matthew 10:16
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Coming Persecutions
16 “I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.(A)
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Amos 5:13
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13 Therefore the prudent will keep silent in such a time,
for it is an evil time.
Amos 5:10
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10 They hate the one who reproves in the gate,
and they abhor the one who speaks the truth.(A)
Daniel 5:5
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The Writing on the Wall
5 Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the wall of the royal palace, next to the lampstand. The king was watching the hand as it wrote.(A)
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Proverbs 26:17
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17 Like someone who takes a passing dog by the ears
is one who meddles in the quarrel of another.(A)
Psalm 38:12-14
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12 Those who seek my life lay their snares;
those who seek to hurt me speak of ruin
and meditate on treachery all day long.(A)
13 But I am like the deaf; I do not hear;
like the mute, who cannot speak.(B)
14 Truly, I am like one who does not hear
and in whose mouth is no retort.
Numbers 14:22
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22 none of the people who have seen my glory and the signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness and yet have tested me these ten times and have not obeyed my voice
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Genesis 49:9
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9 Judah is a lion’s whelp;
from the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He crouches down, he stretches out like a lion,
like a lioness—who dares rouse him up?(A)
John 8:2
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2 Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.
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Luke 11:16
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16 Others, to test him, kept demanding from him a sign from heaven.(A)
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