The priests and the prophets. The mention of the latter is significant. Jeremiah had to separate himself from both the orders to w…

Here the Prophet recounts what happened to him after he had declared God’s message and faithfully warned the people by adding threats, as God had c…

So the priests, and the prophets, and all the people As it was in the temple, in one of the courts of it, that Jeremiah w…

The priests and prophets charged Jeremiah as deserving death, and bore false witness against him. The elders of Israel came to inquire into this ma…

Here, he speaks of the persecution, making four points about it.

1. The hearing of the preaching: and the priests heard. …