22 His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed him as the Messiah,(A) he would be banned from the synagogue.

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who, existing in the form of God,
did not consider equality with God(A)
as something to be exploited.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2:6 Or to be grasped, or to be held on to

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