Then spoke the Kohanim and the prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.
When he was in the gate of Binyamin, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Yeriyah, the son of Shelemyahu, the son of Chananyah; and he laid hold on Yirmeyahu the prophet, saying, You are falling away to the Kasdim.
He who blasphemes the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, *Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!*
crying out, *Men of Yisra'el, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the Torah, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!*
When he had come, the Judeans who had come down from Yerushalayim stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,
Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), *Let us do evil, that good may come?* Those who say so are justly condemned.