TSK · John 8:6

You are a lion’s cub, Judah, from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches and lies down like a lion; like a lioness– who will rouse him?

Those who seek my life try to entrap me; those who want to harm me speak destructive words; all day long they say deceitful things.

For the music director, Jeduthun; a psalm of David. I decided,“I will watch what I say and make sure I do not sin with my tongue. I will put a muzzle over my mouth while in the presence of an evil man.”

A time to rip, and a time to sew; a time to keep silent, and a time to speak.

At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand. The king was watching the back of the hand that was writing.

For this reason whoever is smart keeps quiet in such a time, for it is an evil time.

But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him,“Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us.”

Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked,“Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?”

And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:

The Demand for a Sign Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, asking for a sign from heaven to test him.

But he saw through their hypocrisy and said to them,“Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.”

Others, to test him, began asking for a sign from heaven.

Paying Taxes to Caesar Then they watched him carefully and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They wanted to take advantage of what he might say so that they could deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.