Mark 15:10 For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy. A Burmese potter, says the legend, became envious of the prosperity of a washerman, and, in order to ruin him, induced the king to order him to wash one of his black elephants white, that he might be lord of the white elephant. The washerman replied that, by the rules of his art, he must have a vessel large enough to wash him in. The king ordered the potter to make him such a vessel. When made, it was crushed by the first step of the elephant in it. Many trials failed, and the potter was ruined by the very scheme he had devised to crush his enemy. Parallel Verses KJV: For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.WEB: For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up. |
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