Mark 5:40

in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.

Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spat on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.

When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,

“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”

When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates)

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

“Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on their faces.

One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.

“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.”

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?

Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.

He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”

You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews.

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

Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

Then Ishmael carried away captive all of the people who were left in Mizpah, even the king’s daughters, and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the children of Ammon.

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.

They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’

who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

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

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

Deborah said to Barak, “Go; for this is the day in which Yahweh has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn’t Yahweh gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full.”

He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.

When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, “Yahweh, open these men’s eyes, that they may see.” Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the middle of Samaria.

So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.

that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have started rebellions within it in the past. That is why this city was destroyed.

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”

Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”

But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, they were very angry;

On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’ ”

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.

When he came to the house, he didn’t allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother.

They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.

While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them.

Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.

The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,

Peter sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.