Adjective kakos (evil) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

21: 41They said to him, "He will put those evil (kakos) tenants to a miserable death, and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time."
24: 48But if that evil (kakos) slave says to himself, 'My master is delayed,'
27: 23Then he asked, "Why, what evil (kakos) has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Let him be crucified!"

Mark

7: 21For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil (kakos) intentions come: fornication, theft, murder,
15: 14Pilate asked them, "Why, what evil (kakos) has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Crucify him!"

Luke

16: 25But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil (kakos) things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.
23: 22A third time he said to them, "Why, what evil (kakos) has he done? I have found in him no ground for the sentence of death; I will therefore have him flogged and then release him."

John

18: 23Jesus answered, "If I have spoken wrongly, testify to evil (kakos) [thing]. But if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?"
18: 30They answered, "If this man were not evil (kakos), we would not have handed him over to you."

Acts

9: 13But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil (kakos) he has done to your saints in Jerusalem;
16: 28But Paul shouted in a loud voice, "Do not a evil (kakos) [thing] to yourself, for we are all here."
23: 9Then a great clamor arose, and certain scribes of the Pharisees' group stood up and contended, "We find nothing evil (kakos) with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?"
28: 5He, however, shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no evil (kakos) [thing].

3 John

1: 11Beloved, do not imitate what is evil (kakos) but imitate what is good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.