Mark 16:18
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing [1][2][3][4], it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. [5]
- â They will pick up snakes and be unharmed, and whatever poison they drink will not hurt them.
- â Some scholars believe that this sentence contains two Aramaic idioms.
- â To pick up snakes could be a picture of overcoming oneâs enemies (âsnakesâ, and drinking poison may be speaking of dealing with attacks on oneâs character (poisonous words).
- â The imagery is from Psalms 91:13
- â King James Version (KJV)