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Mark 12:24

The Pulpit Commentary on Mark 12:24

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

These Sadducees erred in two ways:

So in these words our Lord struck at the double root of the error of the Sadducees:

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