"What are we to do with these men?" they said. "It is plain to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem that a miracle has admittedly been worked by them. That we cannot deny.
but they could not meet the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.
and that was why the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard he had performed this Sign.
for I will give you words and wisdom that not one of your opponents will be able to meet or refute.
At that time they had a notorious prisoner called Jesus Bar-Abbas;
'Because nobody hired us,' they said. He told them, 'You go into the vineyard too.'