⁶ They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.

²⁵ Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

³ Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"

¹³ Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

¹⁸ But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

⁷ A time to tear, And a time to sew; A time to keep silence, And a time to speak;

²⁰ They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

²¹ They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.

²² Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"

²³ But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why do you test me?

⁹ Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

⁵³ As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

⁵⁴ lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

¹⁶ Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.

¹⁵ Shall we give, or shall we not give?" But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it."

² Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

¹¹ The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.

⁶³ But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, "I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God."

³⁵ One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

⁹ Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, As a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

²² because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

¹² They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all day long.

¹³ But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.

¹⁴ Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, In whose mouth are no reproofs.

¹⁰ They hate him who reproves in the gate, And they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

¹³ Therefore he who is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; For it is an evil time.

¹⁶ "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

²³ But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away; for she cries after us."

¹ The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

² Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.

⁵ In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

¹⁷ Like one who grabs a dog's ears Is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

¹ > I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."