For I see everything they do. Their wicked ways are not hidden from me. Their sin is not hidden away where I cannot see it. ¹ 

You should have reprimanded Jeremiah from Anathoth who is pretending to be a prophet among you! ¹ 

We have not built any houses to live in. We do not own any vineyards, fields, or crops.

I will avenge ¹  their blood which I had not previously acquitted. It is the Lord who dwells in Zion!

He replied, “Don’t you know what these are?” And I said, “No, sir.”

How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, ¹ 

But I told you ¹  that you have seen me ²  and still do not believe.

Jesus replied, ¹  “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?” ² 

Then the Pharisees answered, ¹  “You haven’t been deceived too, have you? ² 

we are persecuted, but not abandoned; ¹  we are knocked down, ²  but not destroyed,

They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or the things they insist on so confidently. ¹ 

If so, have you not made distinctions ¹  among yourselves and become judges with evil motives? ² 

David said to Abner, “Aren’t you a man? After all, who is like you in Israel? Why then haven’t you protected your lord the king? One of the soldiers came to kill your lord the king.

Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say ¹  to any of the leaders ²  whom I appointed to care for ³  my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’

Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say ¹  to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel, ²  ‘Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?’”’

So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest, ¹  and said to him, “Why have you not made ²  the Levites collect ³  from Judah and Jerusalem the tax authorized by Moses the Lord’s servant and by the assembly of Israel at the tent containing the tablets of the law?” ⁴ 

“I made myself available to those who did not ask for me; ¹  I appeared to those who did not look for me. ²  I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’ to a nation that did not invoke ³  my name.

Have you not copied their behavior ¹  and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time ²  you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

and said to him, “Do you hear what they are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘Out of the mouths of children and nursing infants you have prepared praise for yourself’?” ¹