Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Yeshua was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the midst of them, and so passed by.
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.
Yeshua therefore walked no more openly among the Judeans, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Efrayim. He stayed there with his talmidim.
While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.* Yeshua said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
Pilate therefore said to them, *Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.* Therefore the Judeans said to him, *It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,*
David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.