Sentences with phrase «of publicans»

Falwell responded to the firestorm with a tweet that has since been deleted: «Honored for same hypocrites who accused Jesus of being a friend of publicans and sinners to be targeting me over a decades old mag cover!»

The Jesus who was crucified was the same Jesus who overcame the power of Satan and the evil spirits, who was the friend of publicans and sinners, who was condemned to death by the «righteous», who preached the Sermon on the Mount, who disputed with the Pharisees and denounced them, who was always an enigma to his disciples and in the end was rejected by them, who was reviled by Jews and Gentiles.

It responds to Christ - in - God by being a shepherd of the sheep, a seeker of the lost, the friend of publicans and sinners, of the poor and brokenhearted.

No wonder Jesus preferred the prayer of the publican.

Luke, placing the story in an earlier context, says that this «bad woman» washed Jesus» feet with her tears, dried them with her hair, kissed them and anointed them with perfume; but it is probably the same story, for though it is said to have happened long before Judas» betrayal and in a slightly different manner, it did happen in the home of a publican named Simon.

The scholar's task in exegesis is obviously to explicate the social roles of the two figures, explain that the hearers would at first identify with the Pharisee as the bearer of religious and social status, and then suffer shock and consternation at the wholly unexpected justification of the publican.

This woman approaches Jesus with the confident faith and with the unshakeable hope of the Woman with the haemorrhage and of the Publican in the temple.

Inspired by a recent New York Times recipe by Chef Paul Kahan of The Publican, even non-salad lovers will want seconds of this dish.

Husband and wife David and Anna Posey bring their many talents — he is the former chef of Chicago's iconic Blackbird; she is the one - time pastry chef of the Publican — to an airy West Loop space all their own.

Celebrity chefs slated to headline events throughout the week: Rick Moonen of rm Seafood and Rx Boiler Room; Rick Bayless of Frontera Grill; Michelle Bernstein of Cena by Michy; Marcus Samuelsson of Red Rooster Harlem, Ginny's Supper Club, and Streetbird Rotisserie; Cosmo Goss of The Publican Restaurant; Erling Wu - Bower of Nico Osteria; Suzette Gresham of Acquerello; Gale Gand, acclaimed pastry chef; television personalities, Dan Smith and Steve McDonagh, the Hearty Boys; Stephanie Prida of Manresa; Renee Erickson of The Whale Wins, Boat Street Café, The Walrus and the Carpenter, and Barnacle; Steve Santana of Taquiza; Justin Woodward of Castagna; Dean James Max of DJM Restaurants, and Chef Jason French of Ned Ludd.

In the kitchen are David and Anna Posey: he the former chef of Chicago's iconic Blackbird; she the one - time pastry chef of the Publican.

Spoon Bread The spoon bread, another example of The Publican's ability to be creative with American classics, was reminiscent of corn bread.

Not exact matches

Change is sweeping through front bars and suburban watering holes across the city, with publicans of some of the city's most recognisable pubs spending up big in efforts to stay relevant in Perth's rapidly diversifying hospitality sector.

Not being an economist, my idea of someone rich in liquid assets is best personified by publican John W. Maxwell, whose venerable Irish - American tavern, Allen's, on Toronto's Danforth Avenue, features a selection of no fewer than 500 different whiskies.

Anyone remember the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican?

There is no evidence the publican even believed that Jesus was the Son of God.

Jesus nails this point home in the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican (Luke 18:9 — 14).

I am sad to say that if we relate this period to a French experience which is just fading, that of 1944 - 1945, the publicans and harlots around Jesus correspond in some sense to dealers in the black market, to collaborators, and to the women whose hair was sheared off at the liberation.

When Jesus set in contrast a self - righteous Pharisee, saying to God, «I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men,» and a contrite publican, praying, «God, be thou merciful to me a sinner,» (Luke 18:9 - 14) he was both summing up the best of his race's teaching on the true spirit of confessional prayer and indicating to his disciples the self - depreciation which must follow any such estimate of personal worth and possibility as he himself believed in.

The common people accepted as a matter of course the control of these political and religious groups, save for chronic grumblings against those who touched their pocketbooks most directly, the hated publicans or tax - collectors.

The victim of the bandits on the Jerusalem - Jericho road, the widow mistreated by an unjust judge, the unfortunates on whom publicans like Zacchaeus practised extortion, the destitute at a rich man's door, prisoners unvisited and hungry folk unfed — always it was wronged individuals who called out from Jesus a social message.3

(Luke 2:41:51; 4:16 - 30; Acts 7:54 - 60; 27:9 - 44) A glance at some of the parables found only in Luke shows how deeply we are indebted to him for words of Jesus that go to the heart of human relations — the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son, the Pharisee and the Publican, the Rich Man and Lazarus.

He got along well with the despised customs officials (whom we probably translate inadequately as «tax collectors,» not to say «publicans») and the equally unwelcome centurion of the Roman army of occupation stationed at Capharnaum, who implored Jesus to heal his boy, pointing out that Jesus could do it by just giving a command without even having to profane himself by entering a gentile house.

Outcasts of men, to you I call, Harlots and publicans and thieves.»

The herald goes to all, to publicans and sinners; he attracts the attention of those who are without and who do not attend the gatherings of the righteous (III: 713).

When God walked in human flesh, he walked into unclean Samaria to talk with a «bad» woman, he associated with publicans and sinners and met the accusation of being a winebibber and a friend of the untouchables.

That penitence and humility are closely linked is evident in the familiar parable of the Pharisee and the publican (Luke 18:9 - 14).

Remember his parable of the Pharisee and the Publican praying in the temple?

The parable is simple and clear: God passes over the «ill - righteously indignant» Pharisee, who presumes himself so superior to the sinful publican, in favor of the one willing to call his own life into question.

The clinching argument for a secret service of God is Jesus» Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican, Luke 18:9 - 14.

For it is Jesus who declares the publican justified and not the man himself, since the publican has accepted and internalized the judgment of religion over him («a sinner»).

To enter the space in which this parable speaks requires that we hold Pharisee and publican together as dual aspects of a single alienating structure, represented here by the temple; to locate both kinds of responses within our own experience; and to transcend both by their reconciliation under the justifying love of God.

The world gets no great lift from this dubious favor of having the Pharisee back away and beat his chest awhile so the Publican can stand to boast of his pride.

Like the Pharisee in the story of the Pharisee and the Publican, we rejoiced that we were not like others — that is, like Catholics.

«This is the man who broke the Sabbath in the terms of the times, the man who was called a glutton and a wine dipper, who feasted with publicans and sinners, who took a whip and drove the merchants out of the temples.

The justification of the good has been replaced by the justification of the wicked; the idealization of good citizenship has given way to the idealization of its opposite, of disorder, chaos, anarchy and catastrophe; the forgiving love of Jesus for the sinful woman, for the adulteress and for the publican, has been misrepresented, for psychological or political reasons, in order to make of it a Christian sanctioning of anti-social «marginal existences,» prostitutes and traitors to their country.

If we now find ourselves obliged to raise precisely this question once again and to think it over afresh, we must first of all make it clear that we are here taking the concept of good in its widest sense, that is to say, simply as the contrary of vicious, lawless and scandalous, as the opposite of public transgression of the moral law, as good in contrast to the publican and harlot.

That young man who ate with publicans and sinners in first century Palestine would probably feel very uncomfortable in such a church (in spite of the fact that his name is prominently displayed).

You get it in the teaching of Jesus where glory and the joy of angels happen around the morally dirty publican as he repents, and not around the purer pharisee who considers himself exalted above the dirt.

If the law of the Sabbath stood in the way of human service, it was to be suspended; he ate with publicans and sinners to win them to the Kingdom even at the cost of ceremonial uncleanness.

His intercourse with sinners, prostitutes, and publicans, which is surely historical, is also alien to the practices of a rabbi.

He is the publican Matthew, whom Jesus called from his seat at the receipt of custom (Matt.

But it is something that is hard to measure, and I like to beware of the Pharisee in the parable with the publican.

It may well be that the sign of a church in which the Spirit of God is at work is precisely that the most unlikely folk are brought in, like the Ninevites at the time of Jonah or like the Queen of Sheba in the days of Solomon, or like the publicans and sinners in the time of Jesus.

The sign of Jonah is in the harlots and the publicans going into the Kingdom ahead of the religious leaders of their time.

Grocery wholesaler Metcash is in talks to set up joint ventures with publicans in Queensland and NSW as part of a strategy aimed at boosting its liquor distribution revenues.

Beer groups such as the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) are also supporting the campaign, along with retailers and publicans.

With close to 200 retail items, Publican Quality Meats provides goods that may be otherwise difficult to come by, as a well as the convenience of a single destination for those looking to fulfill a grocery list.

Once upon a time, there was The Publican, an industrial - scale West Loop marvel that continues to be one of my (and every other person's) favorite places to eat in Chicago.

Now that oysters - and - beer hall has become a mini-empire, with its own bread shop (Publican Quality Bread) and butcher (Publican Quality Meats), a raucous Wicker Park offshoot (right next to another of Kahan's restaurant group's runaway successes, the taco bar Big Star) called Publican Anker, and — perhaps most unlikely of all — Publican Tavern, a pub inside O'Hare Airport.