Isaiah 41:5-7
5 aThe coastlands have seen and are afraid;the ends of the earth tremble;
they have drawn near and come.
6Everyone helps his neighbor
and says to his brother, “Be strong!”
7 bThe craftsman strengthens the goldsmith,
and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil,
saying of the soldering, “It is good”;
and they strengthen it with nails cso that it cannot be moved.
Matthew 12:14
14But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.Matthew 25:3-5
3For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, 4but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. 5As the bridegroom dwas delayed, they all became drowsy and slept.John 11:47-50
47So the chief priests and the Pharisees egathered fthe council and said, g“What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. 48If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and hthe Romans will come and take away both our iplace and our nation.” 49But one of them, jCaiaphas, kwho was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. 50Nor do you understand that lit is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.”Acts 5:24-28
24Now when mthe captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them, wondering what this would come to. 25And someone came and told them, “Look! The men whom you put in prison nare standing in the temple and teaching the people.” 26Then othe captain with the officers went and brought them, but not by force, for pthey were afraid of being stoned by the people.27And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them, 28saying, q“We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you rintend to bring this man’s blood upon us.”
Acts 19:23-28
23About that time sthere arose no little disturbance concerning tthe Way. 24For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, ubrought no little business to the craftsmen. 25 vThese he gathered together, with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth. 26And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, wsaying that xgods made with hands are not gods. 27And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the ygreat goddess Artemis may be counted as nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship.”28When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, z“Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
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