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Luke 7:30

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

But the Pharisees and the experts in the Law of Moses refused to obey God and be baptized by John.

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you rejected my advice and paid no attention when I warned you.

You say, “We are wise because we have the teachings and laws of the LORD.” But I say that your teachers have turned my words into lies!

One of them was an expert in the Jewish Law. So he tried to test Jesus by asking,

Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Your people have killed the prophets and have stoned the messengers who were sent to you. I have often wanted to gather your people, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. But you wouldn't let me.

And we can't say that it was merely some human who gave John the right to baptize. The crowd will stone us to death, because they think John was a prophet.”

Jesus went on to say: What are you people like? What kind of people are you?

I have told you everything God wants you to know.

And Isaiah said about the people of Israel, “All day long the Lord has reached out to people who are stubborn and refuse to obey.”

We work together with God, and we beg you to make good use of God's kindness to you.

I don't turn my back on God's undeserved kindness. If we can be acceptable to God by obeying the Law, it was useless for Christ to die.

God always does what he plans, and that's why he appointed Christ to choose us.




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