Behold the Woman!: A Tale of Redemption |
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Page 338 - There was a certain creditor which had two debtors : the one owed five hundred pence and the other fifty. "And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me, therefore, which of them will love him most 1 " Simon answered and said, I suppose that he to whom he forgave most.
Page 333 - He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Page 337 - And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Page 105 - He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity : he that killeth with the sword, must be killed with the sword.
Page 338 - Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself saying, This man if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.
Page 338 - Thou gavest Me no kiss : but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss My feet My head with oil thou didst not anoint : but this woman hath anointed My feet with ointment. Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven ; for she loved much : but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
Page 264 - And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations : and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written King of kings and Lord of lords.
Page 372 - But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Page 130 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication : and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Page 369 - He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.