Sentences with phrase «house of a leper»

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).

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

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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.

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.

It provided the rarest treat horror fans get nowadays in the form of a joyous thrill ride that just happened to contain haunted houses, werewolves flash rotting lepers and murderous clowns.

And in truth, is it possible to ever have a Twilight on your hands if you go the self - route, long considered the last bastion of rejects and unpolished literary lepers for whom the gates of Random House heaven have already closed?

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.