Sentences with phrase «leper houses»

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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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

She never left her house, and she felt like a 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.

First it was used to house a leper colony.