My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.
So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, *I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.*
Yeshua went about in all Galil, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
They cried out, *Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!* Pilate said to them, *Shall I crucify your King?* The chief Kohanim answered, *We have no king but Caesar!*
that spoken word you yourselves know, which was proclaimed throughout all Yehudah, beginning from the Galil, after the immersion which Yochanan preached;
When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Sha'ul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.