Mark 7:6 · WEB
“He answered them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.”
— Mark 7:6
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Life of Jesus (~30 AD)
Emotion
angry
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narrative
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