14. But as for me, behold, I am in your hands. Do to me what is good and right in your eyes.
15. Yet truly, know and understand this: if you kill me, you will be bringing innocent blood against yourselves, and against this city and its inhabitants. For in truth, the Lord sent me to you, so as to speak all these words in your hearing."
16. And then the leaders and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: "There is no judgment of death against this man. For he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God."
17. Then some of the elders of the land rose up. And they spoke to the entire assembly of the people, saying: