• @FourPacketsOfPeanuts
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    41 month ago

    In Matthew 16 Jesus gives Peter the “keys to the kingdom” and in Revelation the new Jerusalem has pearls for gates. That’s where it comes from.

    • Flax
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      31 month ago

      The pearly gates are biblical. I think the keys are taken a bit literally. But that’s interesting to think about, actually