TSK · Isaiah 29:21

To show partiality is terrible, for a person will transgress over the smallest piece of bread.

They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.

Jeremiah Petitions the Lord to Punish Those Who Attack Him Then some people said,“Come on! Let us consider how to deal with Jeremiah! There will still be priests to instruct us, wise men to give us advice, and prophets to declare God’s word. Come on! Let’s bring charges against him and get rid of him! Then we will not need to pay attention to anything he says.”

The LORD said,“Go stand in the courtyard of the LORD’s temple. Speak out to all the people who are coming from the towns of Judah to worship in the LORD’s temple. Tell them everything I command you to tell them. Do not leave out a single word!

The Israelites hate anyone who arbitrates at the city gate; they despise anyone who speaks honestly.

‘Don’t preach with such impassioned rhetoric,’ they say excitedly.‘These prophets should not preach of such things; we will not be overtaken by humiliation.’

Paying Taxes to Caesar Then the Pharisees went out and planned together to entrap him with his own words.

When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things,

You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you.