Personal Injuries

¹² “Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death.^(A)

¹³ Then two scoundrels came and sat opposite him and brought charges against Naboth before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.^(A)

⁶⁶ What do you think?”

“He is worthy of death,”^(A) they answered.

⁶⁴ “You have heard the blasphemy. What do you think?”

They all condemned him as worthy of death.^(A)

³³ “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”^(A)

⁷ The Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die,^(A) because he claimed to be the Son of God.”^(B)

⁵⁸ dragged him out of the city^(A) and began to stone him.^(B) Meanwhile, the witnesses^(C) laid their coats^(D) at the feet of a young man named Saul.^(E)