The chief Kohanim and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.
For this cause therefore the Judeans sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Shabbat, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,
What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.