Sentences with phrase «many lepers»

But it was for a team that nobody wanted to be part of, a team that, frankly, was the leper colony.

Gardner is impressed with Obama as a potentially «good chief executive,» he concludes — an office he'd be more likely to win «if people stop dreaming that [he] will change the weather and cure lepers.»

Yes, it had straight members, but the congregation seemed to be living life as in a leper colony, just grateful that they were even allowed to worship God.

October 21, 2012 — Names seven new saints, two of them Americans: 17th century Mohawk Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American, and Marianne Cope, a nun who devoted 30 years of her life helping lepers in Hawaii.

And behold, a leper came and worshiped Him, saying, «Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.»

These miracles included the healing of a blind man and a leper and bringing life to the dead.

«Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons.

so here we have a deception from the writer of this article and he is a clergy and he says that the word leper is a term used generally for illness in that time.

The DSM - IV may as well just be called «God's Book of Unclean Lepers,» and it assumes, just like the Bible, that the clinicians are the elite and perfect «normal» ones and that everyone else that looks different than them has the disorder.

Dedicating your life to living with lepers was even more noble.

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

(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.

And this is somehow equivalent to Francis of Assisi, who made out with a hallucinatory leper in the 5th century?

To compare, as this article does, embracing someone with neurofibromatosis to earlier work with lepers is misleading.

The best of what I am calling Pentecostal mysticism envisions a «worldly» ministry in which «the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news preached to them.»

MAYBE, Rob, just maybe atheists get tired of being called hopeless, soulless, sinners, immoral, lost, unloved, heathens, satan, mindless, aimless, doomed, unspiritual, lowlifes, despairing, unhappy, unchosen and treated like lepers.

Otherwise we'd still be living in huts and driving lepers out of our villages.

Generally, people avoided lepers like the plague (literally).

Everything the Pope is doing now is not just an imitation of his patron saint who loved the poor, embraced lepers, charmed sultans, made peace and protected nature.

When Jesus came on the scene he could touch the leper and make the leper clean.

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.

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.

Any time people draw superficial lines to keep others away, they separate themselves from the Messiah who welcomed lepers, kids, beggars, prostitutes and thieves.

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

No drinking parties, lepers, people whose religion or racial background is suspect and no healing on the Sabbath.

LET: of course the blood of the innocent bird was used to cleanse the leper because Jesus wasn't yet on the scene.

Be with the lepers.

They watched Him touch a leper (Luke 5:12 - 15), raise a paralytic (5:16 - 26), and attend a party with traitorous tax - collectors (5:27 - 32).

Remember how Jesus responded to the leper in Luke 5?

One day, as He walks through a town, a leper confront Him.

Although Jesus heals the leper, we all know instances in which someone who genuinely desires healing has asked and not been cured.

In the times of the biblical narrative Jesus is healing lepers, raising people from the dead, controlling nature.

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

When Jesus had healed the leper He said Now take an appropriate sacrifice and go show yourself to the priest.

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

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.

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.

In response to John the Baptist's question about his Messiahship, he replied: «the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news preached to them.»

Jesus answers: Go back and tell John what you are hearing and seeing: the blind can see, the lame can walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are brought back to life, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.

If the law says don't drink, rest on Sunday (or the sabbath, one of the ten commandments) or don't touch lepers, or tithe, give offerings, or anything you wan na add then Jesus certainly didn't follow all of it and even broke it, it would seem.

«The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the Good News is preached to the poor.

And when even John begins to doubt, Jesus sends back word: «Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news brought to them.

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

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).

He fights with every religious leader of his day (they are representives of God), hangs out with some of the lowest people in society (drunks, prostitutes, tax collectors), healed people on the sabbath (they see this as against the law), healed lepers (also against the law), accepts some Gentiles and heals them (outside his actual mission), died for all of «humanity», etc..

«If you choose,» begs the leper.

Maybe those whom Jesus has helped can supply John with the answer: the poor, the blind, the lame, the lepers, the deaf, and even those who were raised from the dead.

The leper goes to get more strawberry shortcake for the lame.

Like the leper and others, instead of obeying Jesus» command to keep the miracle secret, these men too «spread his fame through all that district.»

John Bradburne — the saintly ascetic murdered in 1979 while caring for lepers in Rhodesia — was also the most prolific poet in the English language.