Mark 16:18: Difference between revisions

They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing <ref>They will pick up snakes and be unharmed, and whatever poison they drink will not hurt them.</ref><ref>Some scholars believe that this sentence contains two Aramaic idioms.</ref><ref>To pick up snakes could be a picture of overcoming one’s enemies (“snakes”), and drinking poison may be speaking of dealing with attacks on one’s character (poisonous words).</ref><ref>The imagery is from Psalms 91:13</ref>, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. <ref>King James Version (KJV)</ref>