Sentences with phrase «of blind beggars»
The frequent question Jesus asked of blind beggars and mothers and disciples (And so probably me)(and probably you) is a bit stunning in its simplicity.
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A few mornings ago I opened my Bible to the story of the blind beggar in Luke 18:35 - 42, as part of my study through the gospels.
Four conclusions are drawn from the healing miracle of the blind beggar narrated in Mark 10:46 - 52: 1.
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When one does give, it seems to me important to look into the eye of the beggar — if he or she is not blind — and to see there a fellow human being.
By the middle of the first century, any male might be called upon to read, whether he be a minor, a beggar, or even a blind man!
Mark calls the man who was healed «Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus.»
Athy, dear, you're just another one of those lame and blind beggars who hasn't seen the light of day, so he thinks that his darkness is all there is... Don't boast yourself of your thinking, you're desperately deficient, because the most important part of you is DEAD.
A massive investment in social criticism is needed in the American church, for it is the structures of our society and institutions, wittingly or not, that define people as beggars and that render them blind.
It is only in the presence of Jesus that the blind beggar is able to seize power.
We are — all of us — blind beggars, with genuine hurts and handicaps.
The key turn in the narrative is when the blind beggar is able to speak of his pain.
The key transaction in the healing narrative is the seizure of power by the blind beggar.
One of the more upsetting depictions is that of a child being forced to have his eyes seared by heat and acid because he can earn more money as a blind beggar.
«These were the days before CV blind policies, and his dismissal of my university choice was withering — the «Hull, Hell and Halifax» reference is actually from The Beggar's Litany and lists the three things thieves in the 17th century feared most — hell, for obvious reasons, the Hull jail and the Halifax gibbet — a particularly nasty execution tool.