Graphic Bible · Scene 15 of 39

In Jesus’s critique, a leader travels by boat and road to seek a convert.
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Matthew 23:15

A Convert Across Sea and Land

Jesus Warns the Leaders and Laments Jerusalem · Matthew 23

Story guide: The sea journey and dismissive conduct illustrate the zeal and harmful influence Jesus describes.

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15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel over sea and land to make one convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

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