So the Jewish leaders began to say, “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.

Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)

(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,

Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.

Thus the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!”

But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

The Jewish leaders replied, “We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!”

Now in that city was a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic and amazing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great.

Then the eunuch said to Philip, “Please tell me, who is the prophet saying this about – himself or someone else?”

Even some of the provincial authorities who were his friends sent a message to him, urging him not to venture into the theater.

When morning came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.

They went to the chief priests and the elders and said, “We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath not to partake of anything until we have killed Paul.

For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.

Do not avenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God’s wrath, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.

So the person who resists such authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will incur judgment