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Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”

After three days, he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered, he said to them, “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, I was taken prisoner in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.

He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

And when he had assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.