| But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt you me, you hypocrites ? - Mat 22:18 I suspect many Jews would have answered the question by saying something like this: "I pay no more than I can get by with." because they hated Rome. Jesus recognizes that they want Him to respond as a Rome-hater. His lord answered and said unto him, You wicked and slothful servant, you knew that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: - Mat 25:26 Then goes he, and takes to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. - Luk 11:26 Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him. - Act 25:5 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith . - 2Th 3:2 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. - 2Pe 3:17 I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because you have known the Father . - 1Jn 2:13 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous . - 1Jn 3:12 Cain was a Carnal Minded murderer. |