“What then ought they to have done on hearing these things? ought they not to have adored, to have marvelled at the tender care, that shown before, that afterwards? But if by none of these things they were made better, by the fear of punishment at any rate ought they not to have been rendered more temperate? But they d…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on the Gospel of Matthew 68
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45And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
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43Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
44And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
— Matthew 21:45 —
46But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.