⁴ plotting how to capture Jesus secretly and kill him.

¹⁴ Then the Pharisees called a meeting to plot how to kill Jesus.

¹⁰ Then he said, “You son of the devil, full of every sort of deceit and fraud, and enemy of all that is good! Will you never stop perverting the true ways of the Lord?

¹⁹ This king exploited our people and oppressed them, forcing parents to abandon their newborn babies so they would die.

³³ Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?

The Man and Woman Sin

3 The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”

³ But I fear that somehow your pure and undivided devotion to Christ will be corrupted, just as Eve was deceived by the cunning ways of the serpent.