GOSPEL 18:1-10
The Religious Authorities Plot
THE RELIGIOUS AUTHORITIES PLOT
18 1But the clergy were angry, and they began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.
2“We have heard him blaspheme against Moses and against God!”
3“Look! He is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!”
4“He is demon-possessed and raving mad!”
5Thus, the chief priests and the Pharisees summoned the Temple guards, and asked them, “Why haven’t you brought him in?”
6“No one’s ever spoken the way this man does,” the guards replied.
7“Don’t tell us he has deceived you too?” the Pharisees retorted. “Have any one of the authorities or Pharisees believed him? No! But this mob that knows nothing of the Rules—there is a curse on them.”
8Then Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked, “Do our Rules condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?”
9They replied, “Are you from Galilee, too? Consult the Scriptures, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.” 10And they plotted to arrest Jesus in secret and kill him.
THE RELIGIOUS AUTHORITIES PLOT
18 1Οἱ γραμματεῖς δὲ ἐπλήσθησαν ἀνοίας καὶ διελάλουν πρὸς ἀλλήλους τί ἂν ποιήσαιεν τῷ Ἰησοῖ. 2Ἀκηκόαμεν αὐτοῦ λαλοῦντος ῥήματα βλάσφημα εἰς Μωϋσῆν καὶ τὸν θεόν. 3Ἰδοὺ ἄνθρωπος φάγος καὶ οἰνοπότης, τελωνῶν φίλος καὶ ἁμαρτωλῶν. 4Δαιμόνιον ἔχει καὶ μαίνεται.
5Ἦλθον οὖν οἱ ὑπηρέται πρὸς τοὺς ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ Φαρισαίους, καὶ εἶπον αὐτοῖς ἐκεῖνοι· Διὰ τί οὐκ ἠγάγετε αὐτόν; 6ἀπεκρίθησαν οἱ ὑπηρέται· Οὐδέποτε ἐλάλησεν οὕτως ἄνθρωπος. 7ἀπεκρί-θησαν οὖν αὐτοῖς οἱ Φαρισαῖοι· Μὴ καὶ ὑμεῖς πεπλάνησθε; μή τις ἐκ τῶν ἀρχόντων ἐπίστευσεν εἰς αὐτὸν ἢ ἐκ τῶν Φαρισαίων; ἀλλ’ ὁ ὄχλος οὗτος ὁ μὴ γινώσκων τὸν νόμον ἐπάρατοί εἰσιν.
8Λέγει Νικόδημος πρὸς αὐτούς, ὁ ἐλθὼν πρὸς αὐτὸν τὸ πρότερον, εἷς ὢν ἐξ αὐτῶν· Μὴ ὁ νόμος ἡμῶν κρίνει τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐὰν μὴ ἀκούσῃ πρῶτον παρ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ γνῷ τί ποιεῖ; 9ἀπεκρίθησαν καὶ εἶπαν αὐτῷ· Μὴ καὶ σὺ ἐκ τῆς Γαλιλαίας εἶ; ἐραύνησον καὶ ἴδε ὅτι ἐκ τῆς Γαλιλαίας προφήτης οὐκ ἐγείρεται. 10καὶ συνεβουλεύσαντο ἵνα τὸν Ἰησοῦν δόλῳ κρατήσωσιν καὶ ἀποκτείνωσιν·
I like to call them the Bible teachers because the evangelical douchebags who call themselves Bible teachers today have the same personalities.