But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have
You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”
If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.
Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Serv
In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel again
And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.