John 9:22

Blessed are you when men hate you, and exclude you, and insult you, and scorn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.

And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent to him priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

Yet no one was speaking openly about Him for fear of the Jews.

Then, the Jews did not believe it of him that he was blind and had received sight, until they called the parents of the very one who had received his sight,

They answered and said to him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?” So they put him out.

Jesus heard that they had put him out, and after finding him, He said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;

“They will put you out of the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.