Sentences with phrase «by lepers»

This estrangement of persons with AIDS has been compared to that suffered by lepers.

As Jesus moved on from Capernaum, he was approached by a leper, who knelt before him and said, «If you will, you can make me clean.»

Not exact matches

(Aal - e-Imran, Chapter # 3, Verse # 45) And will make him -LSB-(«Îsa (jesus)-RSB- a Messenger to the Children of Israel (saying): «I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, that I design for you out of clay, a figure like that of a bird, and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by Allah's Leave; and I heal him who was born blind, and the leper, and I bring the dead to life by Allah's Leave.

They have to go out and demonstrate the Kingdom, by Living the Kingdom (not just through words but through Power) to the nations: Heal the sick, cleanse the leper, raise the dead.

The lepers, made outcasts by their disease, were restored by his healing touch.

In fact, he used Namaan's healing by Elisha as the ancient Hebrew warrant for his own ministry to the gentiles: «There were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Namaan the Syrian» (Luke 4:27).

We're called to Live the Kingdom by loving each and every person as much as we love our selves (we demonstrate this by healing the sick, cleanse the leper, raise the dead, feed the poor etc.) Clearly it requires a renewed mind to do the above, because it is through the renewed mind that God has chosen to manifest His Kingdom.

I brought up the idea that had he been a contemporary of Jesus, he probably would have viewed the Messiah as a failure because Jesus went from teaching leaders to having a mass following to being followed by what our society would deem «losers» (prostitutes, tax collectors, demon possessed, lepers, etc.) to having 12 by his side to 11 to 3 to none.

Not by chance, Christ lived noticeably close by the invalids, not by chance, blind man, paralytics, deaf - mutes, lepers, lunatics were irresistibly attracted by him and seeked his community.

Apart from the social services run by the state in which, after all, Christians have as much a share as every one else, it must be said that the participations of «humanists» in private charitable enterprises for the poor, the sick, neurotics, lepers, etc., is relatively modest.

The first is that this fulfilment by man is set in the stream of global, political, and economic history even when we seem to have only private decisions (like that of the lepers).

How, by My permission, you healed the blind man and the leper, and by My permission you brought the dead forth; and how I protected you from the Children of Israel when you brought them clear signs; whereupon the unbelievers among them said: «This is nothing but plain magic».

Jesus was never afraid to touch the untouchable sam is giving good advice but in the scriptures when a person in the old testament touched a leper or a dead person they became unclean that is our fear.What is different with Jesus is that when he touched the lepers his righteousness made them clean instantly when he touched the dead they came to life that is the power of the holy spirit and that power is in all of us who believe by faith in Jesus Christ.So we do nt have to be afraid because we are covered in Christ.brentnz

He observes in Madness and Civilization that medieval society, except for its treatment of lepers (and religious minorities), tended, less than ours, to incarcerate its own members for deviancy But by the 17th and 18th centuries, society imprisoned the idle, the poor, the insane and the criminal without distinction in the former houses of leprosy.

A leper, the advocate of the oppressed, tries to liberate Jesus by removing the gold crown from his head, and Jesus encourages the leper, pleading:

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.

Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110) And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believe.

In fact, as we saw a few weeks ago with the leper, He always loves those that are outcast and looked down upon by society.

And if given a glimpse of how much we have been forgiven, we will show it by our love for Christ — like the woman in chapter 7 — like the leper here in Luke 17.

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!

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».

by your description i think the population of godly people on the planet can be counted on the fingers of a leper's hand.

The trerated leprosy by ussing a live bird to sprinkle the blood of a dead bird around the house of a leper.

«Christians,» they said, «must re-think the usual position that has turned homosexuals into modern day lepers» and «homosexual acts should be judged in each individual instance by whether the participants were expressing genuine love or simply «using» each other for selfish purposes (New York Times 20 November 1967 p. 1).

Jesus heals on the Sabbath, touches a leper and a dead child, is touched by the woman suffering from hemorrhages and does not fast.

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 coronation by the Jewish crowds on Palm Sunday, which they would repudiate on Good Friday, this good woman had hailed and reaffirmed in her act of consecration in the house of Simon the leper.

Jesus when he touchs that which is unclean which symbolises sin makes it clean.Dead bodies and lepers were unclean to the jews under the law if you were clean and touched either you became contaminated by the uncleaness but when Jesus touchs a dead body the person is raised to life and if he touchs the leper he is made well.So that which is unclean is made clean by Jesus i heard that message once and it had a profound impact on me.So our lives are the same we were once unclean sinners but through his blood we have been washed clean and make righteous.That is so awesome..

When word came after his first week there that members of the Italian press were coming to see him, he fled seven miles by bicycle into the woods, to Pope John's Garden, a leper colony run by the sisters of St. Charles Borromeo and one that, Benvenuti says, even many doctors and priests avoided for fear of contracting leprosy.

There is a story about lepers in the Bible (lepers used to be cast out of the general public untill cleanesed) these lepers were starving to death but knew of a near by city where food was in plenty, though it was owned by enemies.

The left always push the point by making the «deniers» feel like a leper minority, their use of the word «consensus» making regular appearances.

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.

A.A. Dowd of the A.V. Club finds the movie «aggressively maudlin,» but admits that if there's «any power to this manipulative movie, it lies in quiet dignity of its lead performance, delivered by a nonprofessional actor from an actual leper colony.»

The report added that a visit to a leper colony in Cebu «made him realize he could make a difference by being Santa.»

I enjoyed reading «The Island» by Victoria Hislop, based on the Leper Colony on Spinalonga Island in Crete.

Camera: Kyle Stevenson Produced and edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen Cover photo: «Leper Squint» (16), 2014, by Michael Simpson Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2016

A Leper Squint painting by Michael Simpson.