His parents said these things because they feared the Jewish leaders. For they had already agreed that anyone who confessed him to be Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
But for the cowardly, the unbelieving, the disgusting, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the magic drug users, the idolaters, and all the liars, their share is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, when disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood in the middle of them and said, “Peace be with y’all.”
Later, Joseph of Arimathaea, a disciple of Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jewish leaders), asked of Pilate if he could take Jesus’s body. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and took away his body.
“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?
“Y’all listen to me, those who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Y’all must not fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
Therefore the Jews didn’t believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight,