Then the kohen gadol tore his clothes and said, “Blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Look, you’ve heard the blasphemy.
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rab-shakeh.
Yet neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words were afraid, nor tore their clothes.
or a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect or a rash or scabs, or who has damaged testicles.
Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes.
Then some of the Torah scholars said among themselves, “This fellow blasphemes!”
Then the Torah scholars and the Pharisees began to question, saying, “Who is this fellow speaking blasphemies? Who can pardon sins but God alone?”
The Judean leaders answered, “We aren’t stoning you for a good work, but for blasphemy. Though You are a man, You make Yourself God!”
do you say of Him, the One the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You speak blasphemy,’ because I said, ‘I am Ben-Elohim’?
But when the emissaries Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their clothes and rushed out among the crowd, crying out