And they hurled all sorts of terrible insults at him.
The people passing by shouted abuse, shaking their heads in mockery.
But some of the teachers of religious law said to themselves, “That’s blasphemy! Does he think he’s God?”
Anyone who speaks against the Son of Man can be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
Many times I had them punished in the synagogues to get them to curse Jesus. I was so violently opposed to them that I even chased them down in foreign cities.
