John 8:48

Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.”

saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”

Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like me.

so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard.

Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.”

and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”

The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch.”

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick.

They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set toward Jerusalem.

Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place where he was about to come.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling you.”

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”

The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?”

Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.

It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.

You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

and sent messengers before his face. They went and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him.

But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”

You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am.

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.