15:8 ‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart 2 is far from me,
1 sn It was customary practice in a Roman crucifixion for the prisoner to be made to carry his own cross. Jesus is speaking figuratively here in the context of rejection. If the priority is not one’s allegiance to Jesus, then one will not follow him in the face of possible rejection.
2 tn The term “heart” is a collective singular in the Greek text.