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Feast in the House of Simon by Francis Francken the Younger.. The Parable of the Two Debtors is a parable of Jesus.It appears in Luke 7:36–7:50, where Jesus uses the parable to explain that the woman who has anointed him loves him more than his host, because she has been forgiven of greater sins.
She discovers that he has left the room numerous times. When she interrogates him about this, she says, “Because the principle doesn’t change if you were out seven times, or seventy, or seventy times seven.” Then she decides to amputate his leg to hobble him. [7]
Pity the sorrows of a poor old man! ... Description English: In the foreground, a beggar slumped on the pavement, his right hand held out for money, his back against the wall of a building and his dog sitting between his legs; figures visible through a window in the house behind him, and a view down a street to right, receding into the background.
Jesus honors a poor widow who cast "two copper coins" into the Temple treasury. What the widow gave to God was the totality of her belongings. Women had only limited access to the Temple in Jerusalem. There Jesus found the most praiseworthy piety and sacrificial giving, not in the rich contributors, but in a poor woman. [1]
A young man had died, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her. 13 And when the Lord saw her, His heart was filled with pity for her, and He said to her, "Do not weep". 14 Then He walked over and touched the coffin, while the pallbearers stood still.
Avenge me of mine adversary (anonymous), contracted by Pacific Press Publishing Company (1900) The parable of the unjust judge, by Jan Luyken, 1712. The Parable of the Unjust Judge (also known as the Parable of the Importunate Widow or the Parable of the Persistent Woman, is one of the parables of Jesus which appears in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 18:1–8). [1]
However, although the master has "a certain grudging admiration" [7] for the manager's "shrewdness", Jesus labels the manager "dishonest". [6] To add to the interpretations, several different sayings about money were attached to the parable here. It is a matter of debate whether sayings about trust or serving two masters apply to this parable ...
Francis of Assisi viewed poverty as a key element of the imitation of Christ who was "poor at birth in the manger, poor as he lived in the world, and naked as he died on the cross". [ 54 ] The visible public commitment of the Franciscans to poverty provided to the laity a sharp contrast to the wealth and power of the Church, provoking "awkward ...