Pericope

//pəˈɹɪkəpi//

"Pericope" in a Sentence (3 examples)

How can one know who is the author of the pericope about the woman taken in adultery in the Gospel of John?

The reader looked up the Sunday morning pericope.

The oldest known system of pericopes in the Western Church is ascribed to Jerome.

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