“ Why? What wrong has he done?” asked Pilate. But they shouted even louder,“ Crucify him!”

巡抚说：“为什么呢？他做了什么恶事呢？”他们便极力地喊着说：“把他钉十字架！”

总督说：“为什么？他做了什么恶事呢？”他们更加喊着说：“把他钉十字架！”

总督说：“为什么？他做了什么恶事呢？”他们更加喊着说：“把他钉十字架！”

彼拉多问：“为什么？祂犯了什么罪？”他们却更大声地喊叫：“把祂钉在十字架上！”

彼拉多说：“为什么呢？他作了什么恶事呢？”众人更加大声喊叫：“把他钉十字架！”

彼拉多说：“他到底做了什么恶事呢？”但他们却越发喊叫说：“把他钉上十字架！”

巡撫說：「為甚麼呢？他做了甚麼惡事呢？」他們便極力地喊着說：「把他釘十字架！」

總督說：「為甚麼？他做了甚麼惡事呢？」他們更加喊着說：「把他釘十字架！」

總督說：「為甚麼？他做了甚麼惡事呢？」他們更加喊着說：「把他釘十字架！」

彼拉多問：「為什麼？祂犯了什麼罪？」他們卻更大聲地喊叫：「把祂釘在十字架上！」

彼拉多說：“為甚麼呢？他作了甚麼惡事呢？”眾人更加大聲喊叫：“把他釘十字架！”

彼拉多說：『他作了甚麼惡事呢？』他們卻極力喊着說：『給釘十字架！』

彼拉多說：「他到底做了什麼惡事呢？」但他們卻越發喊叫說：「把他釘上十字架！」

方伯曰、彼行何惡耶、眾愈呼曰、釘之十架、

方伯曰、彼行何惡耶、眾愈呼曰、釘之十字架、

方伯曰、彼行何惡乎、眾愈呼曰、釘之十字架、

眾呼曰：『釘之十字架！』曰：『異哉、彼曾犯何罪？』眾大呼曰：『釘之十字架！』

“ Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder,“ Crucify him!”

And he said,“ Why? what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more,“ Let him be crucified!”

“ Why?” Pilate demanded.“ What crime has he committed?” But the mob roared even louder,“ Crucify him!”

Then he said,“ Why? What has he done wrong?” But they kept shouting all the more,“ Crucify him!”

But he said,“ Why, what evil has He done?” Yet they kept shouting all the more, saying,“ Crucify Him!”

Then the governor said,“ Why, what evil has He done?” But they cried out all the more, saying,“ Let Him be crucified!”

And he said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out exceedingly, saying, Let him be crucified.

Then he said,“ Why? What has He done wrong?” But they kept shouting,“ Crucify Him!” all the more.

And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.

He asked,“ Why? What wrong has he done?” But they shouted more insistently,“ Crucify him!”

But the governor said,“ Why? What evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, saying,“ Let him be crucified!”

But other Jews were jealous. So they rounded up some evil people from the market place. Forming a crowd, they started all kinds of trouble in the city. The Jews rushed to Jason’s house. They were looking for Paul and Silas. They wanted to bring them out to the crowd.But they couldn’t find them. So they dragged Jason and some other believers to the city officials.“ These men have caused trouble all over the world,” they shouted.“ Now they have come here.Jason has welcomed them into his house. They are all disobeying Caesar’s commands. They say there is another king. He is called Jesus.”

You will never be king as long as Jesse’s son lives on this earth. And you will never have a kingdom either. So send someone to bring the son of Jesse to me. He must die!”“ Why do you want to put him to death?” Jonathan asked his father.“ What has he done?”But Saul threw his spear at Jonathan to kill him. Then Jonathan knew that his father wanted to kill David.

My father and I will come and stand in the field where you are hiding. I’ll speak to him about you. Then I’ll tell you what I find out.”Jonathan told his father Saul some good things about David. He said to him,“ Please don’t do anything to harm David. He hasn’t done anything to harm you. And what he’s done has helped you a lot.He put his own life in danger when he killed Goliath. The Lord used him to win a great battle for the whole nation of Israel. When you saw it, you were glad. So why would you do anything to harm a man like David? He isn’t guilty of doing anything to harm you. Why would you want to kill him without any reason?”Saul paid attention to Jonathan. Saul made a promise. He said,“ You can be sure that the Lord lives. And you can be just as sure that David will not be put to death.”So Jonathan sent for David and told him everything he and Saul had said. Then he brought David to Saul. David served Saul as he had done before.Once more war broke out. So David went out and fought against the Philistines. He struck them down with so much force that they ran away from him.But an evil spirit sent by the Lord came on Saul. It happened as he was sitting in his house and holding his spear. While David was playing the harp,Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But David got away from him just as Saul drove the spear into the wall. That night David escaped.Saul sent some men to watch David’s house. He told them to kill David the next morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him. She said,“ You must run for your life tonight. If you don’t, tomorrow you will be killed.”So Michal helped David escape through a window. He ran and got away.Then Michal got a statue of a god. She laid it on David’s bed. She covered it with clothes. And she put some goat hair at the place where David’s head would have been.Saul sent the men to capture David. But Michal told them,“ He’s sick.”Then Saul sent the men back to see David. He told them,“ Bring him up here to me in his bed. Then I’ll kill him.”

But they saw him a long way off. Before he reached them, they made plans to kill him.“ Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.

Ahimelek answered the king,“ David is faithful to you. In fact, he’s more faithful to you than anyone else who serves you. He’s your own son- in- law. He’s the captain of your own personal guards. He’s highly respected by everyone in your palace.Was that day the first time I asked God a question for him? Of course not! Please don’t bring charges against me. Please don’t bring charges against anyone in my family. I don’t know anything at all about this whole matter.”But the king said,“ Ahimelek, you will certainly be put to death. You and your whole family will be put to death.”Then the king gave an order to the guards at his side. He said,“ Go and kill the priests of the Lord. They are on David’s side too. They knew he was running away from me. And they didn’t even tell me.” But the king’s officials wouldn’t raise a hand to strike down the priests of the Lord.Then the king ordered Doeg,“ You go and strike down the priests.” So Doeg, the Edomite, went and struck them down. That day he killed 85 priests who wore linen aprons.He also killed the people of Nob with his sword. Nob was a town where priests lived. Doeg killed its men and women. He killed its children and babies. He also destroyed its cattle, donkeys and sheep.

The people arguing were getting out of control. The commanding officer was afraid that Paul would be torn to pieces by them. So he ordered the soldiers to go down and take him away from them by force. The officer had told them to bring Paul into the fort.

The next morning some Jews gathered secretly to make plans against Paul. They made a promise to themselves. They promised that they would not eat or drink anything until they killed him.More than 40 men took part in this plan.They went to the chief priests and the elders. They said,“ We have made a special promise to God. We will not eat anything until we have killed Paul.Now then, you and the Sanhedrin must make an appeal to the commanding officer. Ask him to bring Paul to you. Pretend you want more facts about his case. We are ready to kill him before he gets here.”

“ But the renters saw the son coming. They said to one another,‘ This is the one who will receive all the owner’s property someday. Come, let’s kill him. Then everything will be ours.’So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard. Then they killed him.

“ Fellow Israelites, help us!” they shouted.“ This is the man who teaches everyone in all places against our people. He speaks against our law and against this holy place. Besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple. He has made this holy place‘ unclean.’ ”They said this because they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul. They thought Paul had brought him into the temple.The whole city was stirred up. People came running from all directions. They grabbed Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Right away the temple gates were shut.The people were trying to kill Paul. But news reached the commander of the Roman troops. He heard that people were making trouble in the whole city of Jerusalem.

The crowd listened to Paul until he said this. Then they shouted,“ Kill him! He isn’t fit to live!”They shouted and threw off their coats. They threw dust into the air.

When the Sanhedrin heard this, they covered their ears. They yelled at the top of their voices. They all rushed at him.