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Mark 6:20

Mark 6:20

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feared: Mark 11:18; Exodus 11:3; 1 Kings 21:20; 2 Kings 3:12-13, 2 Kings 6:21, 2 Kings 13:14; 2 Chronicles 24:2, 2 Chronicles 24:15-22; 2 Chronicles 26:5; Ezekiel 2:5-7; Daniel 4:18, Daniel 4:27, Daniel 5:17; Matthew 14:5, Matthew 21:26

observed him: or, kept him, or saved him

and heard: Mark 4:16; Psalms 106:12-13; Ezekiel 33:32; John 5:35

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