Thematic Bible: Rapacity of


Thematic Bible




The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.

I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.


However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;

They devour widows' property, and as a show make long prayers. They will receive a more severe punishment."

But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, 'This is the heir; let's kill him so the inheritance will be ours!'


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