23 Then I will announce to them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you lawbreakers![a][b](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 7:23 Lit you who work lawlessness
  2. 7:23 Ps 6:8

23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’(A)

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22 His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed him as the Messiah,(A) he would be banned from the synagogue.

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22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders,(A) who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out(B) of the synagogue.(C)

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