Apostrophe

Jesus sometimes gasps in a kind of aside. It is like the sighs we make that make us human – Oh my! what on earth? You nut head!

These out loud sayings show a  speaker as casual and natural.

Some of these forms of sigh, addresses show affection.

Fear not little flock

I thank thee O Father, Lord of heaven and earth

Some of them show frustration

Children! Have ye any meat?

faithless and perverse generation!

fools and slow of heart to believe

O thou of little faith

O ye faithless generation

O ye of little faith


Some are sarcastic

And thou Capernaum, which are exalted to heaven

O Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets

Woe unto you also ye lawyers!

Woe unto you that are rich

Ye hypocrites

Some of them are insult.

generation of vipers!

Get thee behind me Satan!

He shall say, Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity

Woe to that man by whom the offence cometh

Woe unto the world because of offences

Woe unto thee Chorazin! Woe unto thee Bethsaida!

Ye serpents

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