Sentences with phrase «child of a leper»

Osh, the man who rescued her, and Miss Maggie, a tough but affectionate neighbor, care for her and attempt to shield her from the cruel island residents and tourists who are convinced that she is a child of a leper.

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(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.

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».

Indeed, it is You who is Knower of the unseen» (109)[The Day] when Allah will say, «O Jesus, Son of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure Spirit and you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [what was] like the form of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you healed the blind and the leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them said, «This is not but obvious magic.»

It's difficult to believe in Jesus the healer of the leper and cripples also believe in the God who rained fire on Sodom, and demanded adulterers to be stoned and disobedient children to be put to death.

In the days of Jesus, these people were lepers, prostitutes, the demon - possessed and even children.

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.

Like the prophets, Jesus took the side of the marginal, the excluded, the powerless: lepers (Luke 5:12 - 15; 7:22; 17:11 - 19); tax collectors (5:27 - 32; 15:1; 18:9 - 14; 19:1 - 9); the disabled (6:6 - 11; 7:22; 13:10 - 17; 18:35 - 42); the poor (6:20; 7:22; 14:21; 16:19 - 22; 18:22); the hungry (6:21; 9:12 - 17); the grief - stricken (6:21; 7:13); the reviled and defamed (7:22); slaves (7:1 - 10); widows (7:11 - 17; 18:1 - 8; 21:1 - 2); prostitutes (7:36 - 50); women (8:1 - 3, 43 - 48; 10:38 - 42; 13:10 - 17); children (8:49 - 56; 9:46 - 48; 17:2; 18:15 - 17).

When I went with some middle - school children to visit Penikese, one girl absently leaned her hand against the old wall of the tumble - down laundry where the lepers washed their clothes nearly 100 years ago... and then she jerked it away and said, «Am I going to get leprosy now?»