Mark 3:2

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

They sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

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

Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

So a division arose in the multitude because of him.

So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.

When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick;

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

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

When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.

The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table.

The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, “There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!”

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”

The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”

But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.

When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.

“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy in Yahweh’s name, that you not die by our hand;’

When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”

‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say, “Your familiar friends have turned on you, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away from you.”

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews.

Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”

The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, “Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

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

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”

They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer and were silent.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”

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.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?” that they might accuse him.

At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons.

But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them.