Mark 14:31 But he spoke the more vehemently, If I should die with you, I will not deny you in any wise. Likewise also said they all. I stand on a mountain in Colorado six thousand feet high. There is a man standing beneath me who says: "I see a peculiar shelving to this rock," and he bends towards it. I say: "Stop, you will fall." He says: "No danger; I have a steady head and foot, and see a peculiar piece of moss." I say: "Stand back"; but he says: "I am not afraid"; and he bends farther and farther, and after a while his head whirls and his feet slip — and the eagles know not that it is the macerated flesh of a man they are picking at, but it is. So I have seen men come to the very verge of New York life, and they look away down in it. They say: "Don't be cowardly. Let us go down." They look farther and farther. I warn them to stand back; but Satan comes behind them, and while they are swinging over the verge, pushes them off. People say they were naturally bad. They were not! They were only engaged in exploration. (Dr. Talmage.) Parallel Verses KJV: But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said they all. |
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