Luke 23:22
He said to them the third time, “Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him.”
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Luke 23:22
He said to them the third time, “Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him.”
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Exodus 23:7
“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.
1 Kings 21:13
The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.
Proverbs 17:15
He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
Proverbs 24:23
These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.
Proverbs 24:24
He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—
Isaiah 5:23
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
Isaiah 55:8
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
Isaiah 55:9
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
Ezekiel 22:28
Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, ‘The Lord Yahweh says,’ when Yahweh has not spoken.
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
Amos 5:7
You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!
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1 Samuel 15:9
But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, of the fat calves, of the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
1 Samuel 15:15
Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”
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1 Samuel 20:31
For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!”
1 Samuel 20:33
Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
Psalms 35:12
They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
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1 Samuel 23:19
Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
1 Samuel 23:20
Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”
1 Samuel 23:21
Saul said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, for you have had compassion on me.
Job 31:34
because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—
Isaiah 51:13
Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?
Jeremiah 38:4
Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death, because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them; for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.”
Mark 6:23
He swore to her, “Whatever you ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”
Mark 6:24
She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.”
Luke 23:10
The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.
Luke 23:11
Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
Acts 9:2
and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Galatians 1:10
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
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Job 31:31
if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
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2 Samuel 16:11
David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.
2 Samuel 17:2
I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,
2 Samuel 17:3
and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”
2 Samuel 17:4
The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
Psalms 3:2
Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.” Selah.
Psalms 25:19
Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.
Psalms 27:2
When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Psalms 27:12
Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
Psalms 38:19
But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
Psalms 56:2
My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalms 64:2
Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
Psalms 138:7
Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.
Psalms 143:3
For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
Luke 22:2
The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.
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Exodus 28:36
“You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, ‘HOLY TO YAHWEH.’
Isaiah 53:9
They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
Jeremiah 26:15
Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”
Matthew 27:4
saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”
Luke 1:35
The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.
John 8:29
He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
John 14:30
I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
Acts 3:14
But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
Acts 4:27
“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,
2 Corinthians 5:21
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Hebrews 4:15
For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
Hebrews 9:14
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
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Amos 5:12
For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.
Amos 6:12
Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,
Romans 4:5
But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
James 5:6
You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
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Matthew 7:28
When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,
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Proverbs 24:11
Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
Matthew 27:54
Now the centurion and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that were done, were terrified, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God!”
Luke 22:22
The Son of Man indeed goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”
John 18:38
Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no basis for a charge against him.
Acts 13:28
Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.
Hebrews 5:9
Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
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Mark 6:25
She came in immediately with haste to the king and requested, “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter.”
Luke 23:8
Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.
Luke 23:9
He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.
Luke 23:12
Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.
Luke 23:13
Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,
Luke 23:17
Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast.
Acts 22:3
“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.
Acts 22:22
They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice and said, “Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn’t fit to live!”
Acts 25:3
asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him on the way.
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Psalms 22:8
“He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
Psalms 22:9
But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.
Isaiah 49:7
Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
Isaiah 53:2
For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
Zechariah 11:8
I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
Mark 14:55
Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.
Acts 13:38
Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins;
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Mark 15:15
Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
John 19:1
So Pilate then took Jesus and flogged him.
John 19:7
The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”
John 19:8
When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
John 19:9
He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
John 19:10
Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you and have power to crucify you?”
John 19:16
So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.
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Acts 24:25
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.”
Acts 24:26
Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often and talked with him.
Acts 24:27
But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.
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Acts 19:40
For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning today’s riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn’t be able to give an account of this commotion.”
Acts 25:24
Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
Acts 25:25
But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor, I determined to send him,
Acts 26:31
When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”
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1 Samuel 24:17
He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.
2 Kings 24:4
and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.
Psalms 2:2
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
Proverbs 16:7
When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Jonah 1:14
Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, “We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.”
Luke 23:1
The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.
Luke 23:5
But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”
1 Peter 2:22
who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
1 Peter 3:18
Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,
1 John 2:2
And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
1 John 3:5
You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.
Revelation 3:7
“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
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