TSK · John 12:42

Listen to me, you who know what is right, you people who are aware of my law! Don’t be afraid of the insults of men; don’t be discouraged because of their abuse!

Listen to the LORD’s message, you who respect his word! Your countrymen, who hate you and exclude you, supposedly for the sake of my name, say,“May the LORD be glorified, then we will witness your joy.” But they will be put to shame.

Peter’s Denials Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A slave girl came to him and said,“You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”

“I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before God’s angels.

However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders.

(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

The Response of the Jewish Leaders Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.

Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you.

If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.