^12 (A)and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.

² Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “^(A)She is my sister.” So ^(B)Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

⁴ “I say to you, ^(A)My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do.

⁴² Nevertheless ^(A)many even of ^(B)the rulers believed in Him, but ^(C)because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be ^[a](D)put out of the synagogue; ^43 (E)for they loved the ^[b]approval of men rather than the ^[c]approval of God.