Sentences with phrase «story of the servant»

In Luke, the large - scale power plays by which the king establishes his rule are mirrored in the individual stories of the servants entrusted with property.

Jesus tells the story of a servant who forfeited his king's forgiveness of a great debt because he could not forgive a fellow servant a paltry debt.

Here's what's new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video - on - demand, and other streaming services... The Netflix original mini-series Alias Grace takes on the true story of a servant girl convicted of murder in 19th century Canada as reinterpreted by Margaret Atwood in her historical novel.

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Bachelder's story, documented in her book, Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others, is the most compelling case study to showcase the power of servant leadership to reinvent a company from the inside out.

He begins again to tell the story of God's plan to restore all of creation, from the covenant with Abraham to the exodus from Egypt, from Ezekiel's valley of dry bones to Isaiah's suffering servant.

We have seen in the story of the centurion's servant (Mt 8:5 - 13; Lk 7:1 - 10) evidence that Jesus could appreciate genuine faith in a Gentile.

At this point Jesus tells the story of the king who went over the accounts of his servants.

The God has thus made his appearance as Teacher (for we now resume our story), and has assumed the form of a servant.

And when the God in the form of a servant stretches forth the hand of omnipotence, let no astonished and open - mouthed beholder imagine that he is a disciple because he is astonished, and because he can gather others about him who in their turn are astonished over his story.

An ancient Talmudic story tells of a king who sent two of his servants out with very interesting instructions.

That is why they lay such stress on this part of their story; and not they alone, but the «original eyewitnesses and servants of the gospel» who transmitted the memories on which they worked.

The fusion of the two ideal figures of Messiah and Servant of the Lord in the historical person of Jesus is dramatically represented in the scene which in all gospels prefaces the story of his public career.

The reception of his books in Catholic academic institutions shows how the future must be thought as a growing consensus — even in theological matters — among those who are the servants of the Word and witnesses of the founding story of Christianity, the story that starts with Jesus of Nazareth.

Luke expands the parable about a man who had entrusted money to his servants with a story of a nobleman who journeys to a distant country in order to confirm his position as king.

In any case, the current Jewish idea of Gehenna is evident in the end of the story with the injunction to «cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.»

Once we take into account the capacity of the ancient Jewish mind to create a story as a way of expounding and showing the relevance of a Biblical text (this practice will be described in Chapter 9), it is not at all difficult to see how the story of Joseph of Arimathea could have been partly shaped by Isaiah 53:9, «And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death,» found in the famous chapter on the suffering servant, which was certainly interpreted by the early Christians as a prophecy of the death of Jesus.

He follows this with the story of the talents which the master of the house distributed to his servants in keeping with his assessment of their abilities.

The story is told in terms of kings, servants and debts large and small, and as such it is an exemplary story, as is that of the Good Samaritan, except that it makes the point in reverse.

Verse 8a, «The master commended the dishonest servant for his prudence», is the first, and the «master» here must be Jesus; it can not be the rich man of the story.

In the story, Jesus says that two of the servants wisely invested the money while the third buried it in the ground.

The servant of this story is held up to the judgement of the hearers as an example of what should not have been done.

The story of the Suffering Servant under the Babylonian Empire appears in the Servant song of Isaiah 53.

Bob, georgia, and ttwp, nowhere in the so called OT, (the obvious truth book), and truly was named by YHWH, «the book of remembrance» in Malachi 3v16, does it say jesus, nor does it tell of his story, and in all of those scriptures in the chapters that are in Isaiah 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44, are speaking of the servant, the elect, from the «seed» of David, as the future prophecy in Jeremiah 23 vs.1 - 8, and Jeremiah 33 vs.14 - 21 of the righteous BRANCH, named «The Lord (YHWH) Our Righteousness», and not just one person here, and again there is no name of jc here either, and this is taught to us, in Jeremiah 33 vs. 22 that there will be a great number of David's seed to be on the throne.

The essence of the story is that a servant for whom the master had canceled a very large debt threw into prison a fellow servant who could not pay him a much smaller debt, whereupon the master delivered the merciless servant to be tortured until he should pay his own debt.

On the other hand, the essential faith which is enshrined in this story is the forerunner of the faith which in the Gospels so persistently cast Jesus Christ in the role of healer of all kinds of bitterness, the faith which appropriates to the suffering of the Cross the line first spoken of the Servant of the Lord: «with his stripes we are healed» (Isa.

After all, by his lights, Christianity thrived in the Roman Empire because it appealed to losers — to the lowly servants, weak slaves, etc. — who found in the story of a God willing to so abase himself a consoling message and sanctifying example to follow, which they did with an energy fueled by otherwise insatiable resentment of their strong and confident rulers.

Yes, in the limited - good society, the Patron's clients may have exploited the poor, thus making the unprofitable servant the actual hero of the story, and the Patron nothing more than a bad man.

There were stories, but years of Powell's life were covered so quickly that I never became invested in the story of Powell's life or even the larger picture of a servant in a 1920smaster's home.

I can remember the faithful singing NYWA at the end of games that Liverpool lost during the 70's / 80's Liverpool has been a club full of long standing servants for years, I think Klopp understands and buys into the Liverpool story / history and is proud to be the Liverpool manager, these so called fans that demand his head after a period of not even a quarter into the season are laughable and not true Liverpool fans, if you love the club you take the good with the bad.

Brown's opponents are convinced that the source of the story was Downing Street, using papers held in confidence by a civil servant, in order to discredit the communities secretary hours after she quit this morning.

The movie detective story in which murder and investigation in general is a background and the main emphasis is placed on relationship of the nobility and their servants.

The six - part miniseries adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel is based on the true story of Irish immigrant servant in Canada named Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), who in 1843 was convicted of murdering her employer (Paul Gross) and the housekeeper (Anna Paquin) with the help of a stable hand

The six - part miniseries adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel is based on the true story of Irish immigrant servant in Canada named Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), who in 1843 was convicted of murdering her employer (Paul Gross) and the housekeeper (Anna Paquin) with the help of a stable hand named James McDermott (Kerr Logan).

Adapted from stories drawn from Giovanni Boccaccio's medieval book «The Decameron,» the film draws humor from the tension between its setting and the way the characters speak and interact as a story unfolds about a fugitive servant (Dave Franco) who pretends to be a deaf - mute to be taken in by a convent that includes three young nuns (Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie, Kate Micucci), each dealing with personal crises of their own.

Here is the story of a man whose first pivotal memory is as a young servant picking cotton at a farm in the South, helplessly watching his father being murdered in cold blood for daring to call out the owner for raping and beating his mother, and whose final scenes in the movie see him visiting the White House after voting for the first African American President of the United States.

After the quake, an affluent couple wait for word of their missing son; needing to pay for repairs to their ruined three - story home, they move into the servants» quarters and sublease the rest of the house to an aid worker, who then becomes embroiled in local class warfare.

Chastain relishes the more unhinged and rapacious facets of this meaty role, sinking under the skin of a Count's daughter whose housebound boredom and twisty desires spark an explosion of emotions between her and the story's two other characters: Jean, a worldly valet (Colin Farrell) whose cultural capital belies his lowly class position, and the devout servant (Samantha Morton) to whom he is woefully engaged.

«Based on real events... mostly» is Mr. Frears» cutesy way of kicking off the film and asking us to enjoy the unusual story of connection between a Queen and a servant, and cut him some slack on the historical depth.

As mentioned above, the scope of this movie is epic, but Chadha's film, which she co-wrote with husband, frequent collaborator and accomplished screenwriter Paul Mayeda Berges, is also a very intimate one, with the heart of the story focussing on a young Hindu servant, Jeet (Manish Dayal), and his intended Muslim bride, Aalia (Huma Qureshi).

However, their distraction pales in comparison to the beefed up role for another fictitious character, Bard's (Evans, Dracula: The Untold Story) servant Alfrid (Gage, Hamlet), who is meant to be the film's comic relief, but ends up being so broad and overbearing, you'll long to find him beheaded and skewered on the end of an Orc's spear after just the first of a dozen intolerable scenes in which he appears.

Soon Caroline happens upon a bunch of mutilated baby dolls and mirrors (see also: Walter Salles's similar - in - so - many - other - ways - too Dark Water), learns the story of how an old black servant couple (Mama Cecille (Jeryl Prescott) and Papa Justify (Ronald McCall)-RRB- were lynched and set on fire for teaching their white master's children the dark arts, and then discovers that Papa Justify, before his untimely immolation, had figured out the secret to eternal life by «borrowing» years from other people.

The story of Alias Grace follows Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), a poor, young Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who, along with stable hand James McDermott (Kerr Logan), was convicted of the brutal murders of their employer, Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery (Anna Paquin), in 1843.

It tells the story of Amir, a well - to - do - boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul who is tormeted by the guilt of abandoning his friend Hassan, the son of his father's Hazara servant.

Keeping the novel's three - part structure, but switching the story from Victorian London to 1930s colonial Korea, then under Japanese rule, Sook - hee (Kim Tae - ri) is a young and attractive pickpocket, masquerading as a house servant to con a wealthy, but socially isolated, heiress (Kim Min - hee) out of her fortune.

«Mister Johnson,» now directed by Bruce Beresford in his first film since «Driving Miss Daisy,» tells the story of an African civil servant, known to all as Mister Johnson, who works as a clerk in the office of the British district administrator.

The book and series tells the story of Grace Marks, a servant woman in Upper Canada in the 1840s who was s... Read more

She wanted to emulate Luchino Visconti, whose films frequently showed servants in the background not merely serving but engaging in their own activities, living lives that seemed to exist beyond the confines of the film's prescribed story.

A simple 25 page presentation retelling the story of Jesus healing the centurion's servant.

This version aims to tell the «fairy» part of the A Midsummer Night's Dream story involving the King and Queen of the fairies, their cheeky fairy servant Puck and of course the hilarious Bottom, whose head is magically changed to a donkey.

She's telling the story from the point of view of the Bennett family's servants.