They kept on insulting Jesus in many other ways.
People who passed by said terrible things about Jesus. They shook their heads and
Some teachers of the Law of Moses said to themselves, “Jesus must think he is God!”
If you speak against the Son of Man, you can be forgiven, but if you speak against the Holy Spirit, you cannot be forgiven.
I often had them punished in our meeting places, and I tried to make them give up their faith. In fact, I was so angry with them, that I went looking for them in foreign cities.