And the Pharisees, and they pertaining to the law, rejected the counsel of God against themselves, not immersed by him.
And ye will reject all my counsels, and ye desired not my reproofs:
How shall ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah with us? Behold, surely for falsehood he made the style of the scribes a lie.
And one of them, skilled in the law, asked, tempting him, and saying,
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets, and striking with stones those having been sent to her; how often I wished to gather thy children together, which manner a hen her young brood under the wings, and ye would not!
And if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they are persuaded John to be a prophet.
And the Lord said, To whom shall I liken the men of this generation? and to whom are they like?
For I concealed not to announce to you all the counsel of God.
And to Israel he says, The whole day have I unfolded my hands to an unbelieving and contradicting people.
And working together, we also beseech, lest also ye receive the grace of God in vain.
I put not away the grace of God for if justice through the law, Christ died in vain.
In whom also we were cast by lot, determined beforehand according to the purpose of him performing all things according to the counsel of his will: