“Nevertheless, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.