Luke 23:12

Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,

while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”

You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”

Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.

“ ‘If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh is from the flock, either male or female, he shall offer it without defect.

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,

“But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend.

Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with a handsome face and good appearance. Yahweh said, “Arise! Anoint him, for this is he.”

But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.

Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”

Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen.

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.

It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.” ’ ” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.

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.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

“All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.

For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,

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

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,

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!”

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.

Shall we give, or shall we not give?” But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it.”

Some Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to him. They asked him, saying,

For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, “He saved others. He can’t save himself.

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

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!”

saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, “Why do you test me?

Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.

He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,

The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ).

Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”

do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’

However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people.