Sentences with phrase «charges brought against jesus»

Within days of this exchange one of the charges brought against Jesus as he stands before Pilate is «forbidding us to pay taxes to the emperor» (Luke 23:2).

There was that much truth in the charge brought against Jesus later that he was preaching sedition.

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That this happened to Jesus is attested by the charge brought against him by scribes from Jerusalem, as Mark reports next (Mk 3:22; Mt 12:24; Lk 11:15): «He is possessed by Beelzebub, and by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.»

The charge that Jesus brought against the traders is not one of sharp practice in business, though with such a valuable monopoly in their hands they perhaps did not waste the opportunity.

If such a suggestion seems to detract from the significance of the miracles as demonstrating his divine nature, it should be remembered that Jesus himself testified to the performance of such cures by others as well as himself: «And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub,» he said to those who brought this charge against him (Mt 12:27 - 28; Lk 11:19 - 20), «by whom do your sons cast them out?»

Perhaps it was the enthusiasm of Galilean pilgrims, who hailed him as Messiah as he entered the city, which called Jesus to the unfavorable notice of the Roman authorities; perhaps it was Jesus» own act of driving money - changers from the temple courts; perhaps it was the bringing of charges against him by powerful Jewish groups whom he had offended.