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A Hard Road Ahead of Them
“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be as wary as serpents, and as innocent as doves.
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Or have you not read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath, and yet are innocent?
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But if you had known what this means: ‘I desire compassion, rather than sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
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saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You shall see to it yourself!”
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Now when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this Man’s blood; you yourselves shall see.”
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Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he began praising God, saying, “This man was in fact innocent.”
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Therefore, I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all people.
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For the report of your obedience has reached everyone; therefore I am rejoicing over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good, and innocent in what is evil.
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For behold what earnestness this very thing, this godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.
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so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world,
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For it was fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;