A Brood of Vipers Jesus declared to the political and religious leaders of his day that if one of them caused a child to stumble, “it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea”1 because of God’s coming judgment against them. I don’t know that I have a firmer picture in my mind of causing a child to stumble than ripping him from his family, forcibly chopping off part of his genitals, cutting out his grandfather’s tongue, raping him, and murdering his fiancée.
