Rue

Rue was a bitter, strong-smelling garden herb, grown mostly for medicine rather than flavor. Pharisees still meticulously tithed it — a precision Jesus said had lost sight of what mattered more.

• “But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.”

  Luke 11:42

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