That makes Jules, as much as he hates it, the tyranny of evil. He has control of the situation with Ringo in the diner and with Brett and the boys. Now, Jules would love to be the shepherd, but he knows he's not shepherd (probably because he kills people for a living), and he's certainly not the weak since he's the one with the gun. Since the miracle, he's been asking himself: Who is the righteous shepherd? And who is the tyranny of evil? At first he says it was 'just a coldblooded thing to say' to someone before he shot them. Jules himself gives us a few different interpretations of why he uses this passage. We're not kidding-that's the real introduction to the movie. Wait, you've never heard of it either? Well, lucky for you that Tarantino is the ultimate movie fan (watching them, not just making them), so he wrote the intro of Chiba the Bodyguard into Pulp Fiction with just a slight variation. But those people have never seen the 1976 English version of the 1973 Japanese martial arts movie Karate Kiba, a.k.a., Chiba the Bodyguard, starring everybody's favorite mid-'70s martial arts hero, Sonny Chiba. Many sources attribute this faux verse to Tarantino, assuming he invented it as part of the script. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I take vengeance on them.' That Old Testament God can be as scary as Jules sometimes, eh? Here's Ezekiel 25:17 from the NIV Bible: 'I will carry out great vengeance on them and punish them in my wrath. Jules takes some poetic license with the passage, though, probably to amp up the effect.

There's Jules' favorite Bible passage in all its glory. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.

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