This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water.
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?”
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.
a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long. But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear, like a mute man who does not open his mouth. I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.
We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents,
As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak about many things, lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.
And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven to test him.
But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, “I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.
But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why put me to the test, you hypocrites?
And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.”
“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw the hand as it wrote.
Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.
none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice,
Judah is a lion's cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?
Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.
So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor. So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?” But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them,
while others, to test him, kept seeking from him a sign from heaven.
But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why put me to the test? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.”
To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.”
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