They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff.
The army of Judah also captured ten thousand men alive, took them to the top of a cliff and threw them down so that all were dashed to pieces.
The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.
Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp.”
All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this.
I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me, because you have no room for my word.
As it is, you are looking for a way to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things.
At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.
And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood.