This passage from Luke 7:36-50 in the NRSV Bible is titled "A Sinful Woman Forgiven" compared to the NAB version, "The Penitent Woman". ... The irony in the passage is that the least acceptable in the eyes of the Pharisee is the most acceptable in the eyes of Jesus. ... It is inconceivable for the time and present day that a moneylender would cancel all debts without question. The parable ends with a question to Simon, "Now which of them will love more?" ... Fitzmeyer comments that this line foreshadows the crucial question asked in Luke: 9 by Herod. ...

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The purpose of this paper is an attempt to answer many of the questions about angels, with a biblical answer. ... How have angels interacted with people from Genesis to Revelation? ... This question can be answered relatively easily. ... How common is the scene in a cartoon of the bumbling cat that dies chasing the mouse only to rise up to the heavens with wings and a harp as an angel. ... How have angels interacted with people from Genesis to Revelation? ...

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In this passage, she exposes her weakness to God while crying out for help. ... After receiving this nourishment, she says, "See, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey, 1 Samuel 14.29." (129). ... This passage reveals to her the reasons God is punishing the Puritans and the success of the Indians. ... Rowlandson is extremely relieved once she is reunited with her husband. ... Later, she is able to question one of the English men taken captive about the welfare of her husband. ...

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(Menzies 112) My question is why is it so important now that we get baptized? ... How important is the action of being baptized? ... This question of baptism falls into the category of spiritual growth in Jesus. ... I no longer think how I have thought for my entire life, that it is necessary to be baptized. ... How much longer until I know the answer to these questions? ...

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