Matthew 21:45

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

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

He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?” But they were silent.

Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.

But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’

My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

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.”

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.

Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.”

But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.”

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

The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

If we should say, ‘From men’ ”—they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet.

They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.

They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.

Then Jesus said to them, “I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?”

But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.

One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”

He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

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!”

“But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’

The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.

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

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,

Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

Send Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for them.

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,