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Luke 23:2

Luke 23:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

they: Zechariah 11:8; Mark 15:3-5; John 18:30

perverting: Luke 23:5; 1 Kings 18:17; Jeremiah 38:4; Amos 7:10; Acts 16:20-21, Acts 17:6-7, Acts 24:5

forbidding: Luke 20:20-25; 1 Kings 21:10-13; Psalms 35:11, Psalms 62:4, Psalms 64:3-6; Jeremiah 20:10, Jeremiah 37:13-15; Matthew 17:27, Matthew 22:21, Matthew 26:59-60; Mark 12:17, Mark 14:55-56; Acts 24:13; 1 Peter 3:16-18

that: Luke 22:69-70; Mark 14:61-62; John 18:36, John 19:12

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