Then the men of the town said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has broken down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah beside it.”
as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.
“I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
A drought against her waters, that they may be dried up! For it is a land of images, and they are mad over idols.
Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, “This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”
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