If the Lord had not cut those days short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of the people chosen as His own He has cut them short.

If your hand makes you do wrong, cut it off. You might better go into life maimed than keep both your hands and go down to the pit, to the fire that is never put out.

And if your foot makes you do wrong, cut it off. You might better go into life crippled than keep both your feet and be thrown into the pit.

But one of the bystanders drew his sword and struck at the high priest's slave and cut his ear off.

And many of the people spread their coats in the road, while others scattered layers of leaves cut from the fields.