and Elijah cometh nigh unto all the people, and saith, ‘Till when are ye leaping on the two branches? — if Jehovah [is] God, go after Him; and if Baal, go after him;’ and the people have not answered him a word.
‘These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.
These things said his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews, for already had the Jews agreed together, that if any one may confess him — Christ, he may be put out of the synagogue;