Sentences with phrase «at lepers»

I distinctly remember the story of Jesus pointing at a leper and saying «Screw that guy, he should get a better job.»

I suspect she knew instinctively, the way women know these things, that a man who dines at a leper's house, who allows a woman to touch him with her hair, who rebukes Pharisees and befriends prostitutes, would not survive for long in the world in which she lived.

I suspect she knew instinctively, the way that women know these things, that a man who dines at a leper's house, who allows a woman to touch him with her hair, who rebukes Pharisees and befriends prostitutes, would not survive for long in the world in which she lived.»

At a leper's house in Bethany a woman anoints Jesus» head; he defends her extravagance.

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At the base of the world's highest sea cliffs, the Belgian missionary spent sixteen years ministering to exiled lepers quarantined on the inaccessible peninsula, bringing order and peace to a lawless and lonely leper colony; his reputation outside of Kalaupapa since his death from leprosy in 1889 has risen and fallen in changing tides of adulation and conflict.

Just days before his betrayal and death, Jesus and his disciples were eating at the home of Simon the Leper in Bethany.

Matthew and Mark describe an unnamed woman from Bethany who, while Jesus dined in the home of Simon the Leper just days before his death, anoints his head with expensive ointment to the chagrin of the disciples at the table, who grumble that her offering might be better spent on the poor.

The leper's cry is too plaintive; it catches at our heart strings.

Ten lepers, meeting Jesus as he was entering a village, stood at a distance and cried.

I'll see my eldest daughter with her BFF colouring at our feet, turning the provided picture of a leper rejoicing into a couple of chicks with carefully designed clothes on and black crayon eyelashes, praising God.

He'd healed folks elsewhere, but not at home, even, he says, as in the age of Elijah and Elisha, when lots of people starved and lepers abounded but miracles from God came only in Sidon and Syria.

Instead of a Pharisee's house in Galilee, the scene of the incident in Mark and Matthew is the house of a leper at Bethany (Mk 14:3; Mt 26:6).

She saw Jesus in the most lowly, she heard him speak through the begging leper at the train station «help me, feed me...», an actual call for work and action, not a feeling or experience mainly or simply.

There is no long, wordy explanation of why the leper is where he is at now, no attempt to «soften» Jesus up by telling Him how great and wonderful and awesome He is, no repetition of the name of Jesus.

This happened in Bethany, at the table of one Simon the leper (Mark 14:3 - 9; Matt.

Saint Marianne Cope, as she will soon be known, may be best remembered for her work with patients suffering from Hansen's disease — or lepers, as they were called at the time.

So these lepers were standing at a distance, and maybe were shouting «Unclean!

The despised lepers standing at a distance and calling out to God for pity is just like the despised tax collector standing at a distance and calling out to God for mercy.

The lepers in the time of Jesus were made to stand at a distance, and if they were approached by anyone, they were required to shout out «Unclean!

Ten lepers met Jesus, but verse 12 says that they stood at a distance.

John 12:1 - 9 and Mark 14:3 - 9 describes her «moment» in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper.

I am sure the lepers were speechless, overwhelmed with the shock of disbelief at their good fortune.

Followers like the woman at the well, Samaritans, lepers.

So here Jesus is, on his way to Jerusalem to meet his end at the cross, and ten lepers call out to him, using his name and asking for mercy.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

Francis of Assisi kisses his lepers; Margaret Mary Alacoque, Francis Xavier, St. John of God, and others are said to have cleansed the sores and ulcers of their patients with their respective tongues; and the lives of such saints as Elizabeth of Hungary and Madame de Chantal are full of a sort of reveling in hospital purulence, disagreeable to read of, and which makes us admire and shudder at the same time.

Mostly they came, I think, because, he loved them and could tell them so, yes, even those vast, milling throngs; there was a touch, a sense, a spirit moving in, across, among those mobs of eager people, told them here at last they had a man who was concerned not for himself, who was not out to get himself elected, but who cared for every single one of them, and tottering old dames, lepers, whores, soldiers, robbers; I've seen them all transformed by seeing him.

The demonstration they give of its authenticity and validity as well as of their own credibility is that in preaching they at the same time «heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils» (Mart.

While Jesus is eating a meal in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, his attention is drawn to a woman with a very expensive ointment which she pours on Jesus» head.

So many messages in the Bible ring true of this concept — the woman at the well, Zaccheus, the ten lepers.

Luther was a «leper and a loathsome fellow... a false libeller and calumniator... a dog and the son of a bitch, born to snap and bite at the sky with his canine mouth... with a brain of brass and a nose of iron.»

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

By Medieval times, cultures around the globe were familiar with the deforming lesions and decaying flesh that resulted in lepers being burned at the stake or carted off to die in remote colonies.

As young medical students, they witnessed deep poverty across the continent, particularly Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela, and their stay at a Peruvian leper colony left a lasting impression on the pair.

After a slow walk of about an hour with many stops for giant crabs, tortoises and birds we arrived at the ruins of the leper colony and the doctor's house which is now a museum with information about Curieuse Island's history.