For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

so that you may know for certain the things you were taught.

When they heard these words, some of the crowd began to say, “This really is the Prophet!”

Hold to the standard of sound words that you heard from me and do so with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

“Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them into practice – I will show you what he is like:

When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat in the place called “The Stone Pavement” (Gabbatha in Aramaic).

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one shouting in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.

By all these things, I have shown you that by working in this way we must help the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city that are described in this book.