TSK · John 7:26

I have told the great assembly about your justice. Look! I spare no words! O LORD, you know this is true.

Α wicked person fled, though no one was pursuing, but the righteous person can be as confident as a lion.

But the Sovereign LORD helps me, so I am not humiliated. For that reason I am steadfastly resolved; I know I will not be put to shame.

However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

(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.

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.

Pray for me also, that I may be given the right words when I begin to speak– that I may confidently make known the mystery of the gospel,

For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.