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Samuel L. Jackson Bible Verse in Pulp Fiction: What the Text Means and Why It Matters

In Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, Samuel L. Jackson’s character Jules Winnfield leans on Scripture to justify violence, asking ‘Ezekiel 25:17?’ and answering with lin...

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Samuel L. Jackson Bible Verse in Pulp Fiction: What the Text Means and Why It Matters

In Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, Samuel L. Jackson’s character Jules Winnfield leans on Scripture to justify violence, asking ‘Ezekiel 25:17?’ and answering with lines that anchor the film’s moral tension. The verse he recites is not invented dialogue but a deliberate citation from the Book of Ezekiel in the King James Version. This evergreen explainer identifies the exact text, extracts its original meaning, and clarifies how the film repurposes the passage for modern storytelling without theological commentary.

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