Ye people, that know the just [or rightwise] man, hear me, my law is in the heart of them; do not ye dread the shame of men, and dread ye not the blasphemies of them.
For what thing dreadedest thou busy, for thou liedest, and thoughtest not on me? And thou thoughtest not in thine heart, that I am still, and as not seeing; and thou hast forgotten me.
Hear ye the word of the Lord, which quake at his word; your brethren hating you, and casting away for my name, said, The Lord be glorified, and we shall see in your gladness; forsooth they shall be shamed.
And king Zedekiah said to Jeremy, I am anguished for the Jews that fled over to [the] Chaldees, lest peradventure I be betaken into the hands of them, and they scorn me.
Ye shall be blessed, when men shall hate you, and separate you away, and put reproof to you [or shall put shame on you], and cast out your name as evil, for man’s Son.
But after these things Joseph of Arimathaea prayed Pilate, that he should take away the body of Jesus, for that he was a disciple of Jesus, but privily for dread of the Jews. And Pilate suffered. And so he came, and took away the body of Jesus.
And he came to Jesus by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know, that thou art come from God a master [or for of God thou hast come a master]; for no man may do these signs, that thou doest, but God be with him.
His father and mother said these things, for they dreaded the Jews; for then the Jews had conspired, that if any man acknowledged him Christ, he should be done out of the synagogue.