Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed in him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue:
And of whom have you been afraid or feared, that you have lied, and have not remembered me, nor taken it to heart? have I not held my peace even from of old, and you do not fear me?
Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word; Your brethren who hated you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
Blessed are you, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, pleaded with Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
The same came to Jesus by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that you do, unless God is with him.
These words spoke his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if anyone confessed that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.