Matthew 5:25
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Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageJerusalem, though not named directly in this verse, was the central city of Jewish worship and law, where courts and officials were prominent. Jesus’ warning about settling with an accuser uses familiar legal imagery to urge prompt reconciliation before divine judgment.
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Matthew 5:25 mentions Jerusalem.
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