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John 8:22

New Living Translation

The people asked, “Is he planning to commit suicide? What does he mean, ‘You cannot come where I am going’?”

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We have had more than our fill of the scoffing of the proud and the contempt of the arrogant.

But I am a worm and not a man. I am scorned and despised by all!

Silence their lying lips— those proud and arrogant lips that accuse the godly.

This was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Temple assistants from Jerusalem to ask John, “Who are you?”

Some said, “He’s demon possessed and out of his mind. Why listen to a man like that?”

The crowd replied, “You’re demon possessed! Who’s trying to kill you?”

The Jewish leaders were puzzled by this statement. “Where is he planning to go?” they asked. “Is he thinking of leaving the country and going to the Jews in other lands? Maybe he will even teach the Greeks!

The people retorted, “You Samaritan devil! Didn’t we say all along that you were possessed by a demon?”

The people said, “Now we know you are possessed by a demon. Even Abraham and the prophets died, but you say, ‘Anyone who obeys my teaching will never die!’

Think of all the hostility he endured from sinful people; then you won’t become weary and give up.

So let us go out to him, outside the camp, and bear the disgrace he bore.




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