for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.”
So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”
When they heard these words, some of the people said, “This really is the Prophet.”
But if we say, ‘From man,’ all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”
But shall we say, ‘From man’?”—they were afraid of the people, for they all held that John really was a prophet.
And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.
But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.”
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
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