“‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he will bear his iniquity.
Your rulers are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
He taught them, saying, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the ethnic groups?’ But y’all have made it a den of robbers!”
He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—look, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May YHWH bless my son!”
He said to him, “No! You will not die. Look, my father does nothing either great or small, that he does not disclose to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”