Religion

Matthew 12:14: How envy blinds the Pharisees

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)

Religion

How envy blinds the Pharisees!
On Sabbaths 'tis a crime to heal.
On Sabbaths, if their God displease,
Tis good in them their God to kill!

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Matthew 12:14: How envy blinds the Pharisees.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4187/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Matthew 12:14: How envy blinds the Pharisees.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4187/.

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