Sentences with phrase «of a leper in»

In another story we shall come across some of those lepers in Israel who were not cured.

1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 «This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing.

Serious painters who believe in painting, however problematic, have all the status of a leper in today's art world, and those who believe that they are the «healthy» ones are often quite smug about their position.»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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.»

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

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.

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.

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.

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 4:27In 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 4:27in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Namaan the Syrian» (Luke 4:27in 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..

Thus the priest shall look, and if the infection of leprosy has been healed in the leper, 4 then the priest shall give orders to take two live clean birds and cedar wood and a scarlet string and hyssop for the one who is to be cleansed.

Possibly, therefore, he moved the story of the lepers, including the geographical note, to a later place than it had occupied in his source, though why he should do this is not apparent.

I like to think that if Jesus was here in the flesh today, He would be breaking bread with gays, the lepers of the 21st century.

If we were able to conduct a survey of those human beings who are giving the most devoted service to people in need, whether it is to the blind, the deaf and dumb, the leper, the spastic or any other of our afflicted fellow human beings, I am confident that we should find the Christians in the majority.

When the lepers come to announce the flight of the Syrians, the king sees in it a classic ruse or trap.

He'd healed folks elsewhere, but not at home, even, he says, as in the age of Elijah and Elisha, when lots of people starved and lepers abounded but miracles from God came only in Sidon and Syria.

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).

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).

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

In Isaiah 64:6, it says that from God's viewpoint, we are like one who has become unclean (that's the word for lepers), and all of our righteous acts are like filthy rags.

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.»

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 don't discount the possibility that there is «magic» in the world, but you haven't told me that you just witnessed the healing of a leper and want to know if I think the messiah might have shown up in town.

Here's what I know of the Gospel and why it is such Good News: If there are lepers in your life, or tax collectors, or prostitutes or any you would consider sinners and unclean, THAT is who you should be hanging out around the table with.

It reminds me somewhat of Mother Teresa who saw in everyone, including the lepers of Calcutta, the face of Jesus.

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.

This happened in Bethany, at the table of one Simon the leper (Mark 14:3 - 9; Matt.

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!

More broadly, the Pope's embrace recalls images of Jesus» healing of lepers, again a blanket term for a variety of skin diseases common in first - century Judea and Galilee.

When most of us enter AA., we feel like moral lepers; we look like moral lepers; and lots of times we continue to act like moral lepers — lying, stealing, cheating, and all the rest of the things Paul enjoined in the Church epistles.

John 12:1 - 9 and Mark 14:3 - 9 describes her «moment» in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper.

As a young man, riding his horse one day outside of Assisi, Francis came upon a leper, a person suffering from one of the many skin diseases common in the early 13th century.

In Jesus» time lepers were outcasts, unclean persons who needed to be cleansed to be reincorporated into the people of God.

In Luke 5:12 - 15, Jesus answers the prayer of a leper.

In a dramatic demonstration that the kingdom of heaven meant the defeat of the powers of evil and death, Jesus raised the dead, cleansed lepers, and cast out evil spirits.

Faith is imputed to the Samaritan leper, the Syrophoenician woman and the Gentile nobleman irrespective of any confessional standing in regard to a specific religious faith.

Greene's only other truly important novel, A Burnt - Out Case, is set in a leper colony in Africa where the architect Querry (read: query) has fled following the failure of his gift as a designer of churches.

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».

This is the presence of God, this is the holy moment, the cathedral, the great moment of surrender and selflessness happening not in the leper colony of India but for me in my own living room in Canada, the breaking of bread and daily manna of communion through a messy home with messy people, learning to love and take joy even when the toast is getting cold.

For example, the lepers were forced to live separated from the community and humiliatingly forced to warn others of their uncleanliness when they were in public places.

The reason Christians don't follow it is because Christ didn't follow it either, in many particulars — he touched lepers and bleeding women and dead bodies among other breaches of the Leviticus code.

Christians don't follow Leviticus any more the reason Christians don't follow it is because Christ didn't follow it either, in many particulars — he touched lepers and bleeding women and dead bodies among other breaches of the Leviticus code.