The Jewish leaders had decreed that “if anyone confessed [Jesus] as Christ, he should get expelled from the synagogue. ”
(‏ يوحنا ٩ :‏ ٢٢‏ )‏ وشخص كهذا جرى تحاشيه والازدراء به باعتباره منبوذا من المجتمع .‏