The Pericope

Further to this, is another fascinating account according to Luke (13:10-13) when Jesus heals a disabled women on the Sabbath day in the

This passage is situated at the beginning of Jesus’ Galilean ministry. Jesus has returned from Nazareth after several days in the wilderness where the power of the Holy Spirit assisted him in fighting the temptations of the devil. In this story, Jesus goes to the synagogue on the Sabbath and is now said to be reading from the Torah as was customary. This means that Jesus regularly does this which shows that he is a devout Jew. It was important for him to rest on the Sabbath and go to the synagogue for scripture and teaching on this day. Luke has followed this account with miracle and healing stories depicting Jesus as a compassionate saviour and prophet. Luke arranges the passages in this way in order to ‘write an orderly account’ (1:3) of

She states: “Yet the Lord still shewed mercy to me, and upheld me; and as he wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the other” (Perkins, 76). She is speaking if a time when another captive teaches her how to use oak leave to cure her wound from the battle. In other words, she is playing her beliefs that everything happens for a reason and is part of God’s plan. To truly believe God was only putting her through what she could handle and what was for the greater good must have been a huge burden off her

Although it is not Mary Grace, who exhibited reprieve, it is the change her actions brought about. It is almost like they were tugging at Mrs. Turpin to transform all along. Mary Grace’s piercing blue eyes appeared to “alternately smolder and blaze” (O’Connor 384). Mary Grace glares at Mrs. Turpin “…like two drills on Mrs. Turpin.

She said “I walked through my wards and found them comparatively empty. Everyman who could crawl had tried to escape a Northern prison. Beds in which paralyzed, rheumatic, and helpless patients had laid for months were empty. The miracles of the New Testament had been re-enacted, the lame, the halt, and the blind had been cured.”

She tries to convince him that he is actually a good man. She then turns it around telling the misfit that he should pray. He takes this as an excuse for his behaviors stating maybe if he had known the truth about Jesus he wouldn’t have done the things he did. The grandmother then states “Why you’re one of my babies. Your one of my own children!” (529} and reached out and touched him. This could be seen as good after all of the things he had just done. Or it could be seen as yet another manipulation to save her own life.

For the Grandmother Jesus needed to be her saving grace, she tried very hard to get the Misfit to let Jesus be the one to save him, but she could not. One critic makes a comment and says “Her spiritual transformation from a self-sufficient woman to that of a praying woman dependent on Jesus peaks with her compassion for her murderer right before her physical death. She even suggests to the Misfit that he pray” (Kelley

From the novels “Under the Persimmon Tree” by Suzanne Fisher Staples, “Inside Out and Back Again” by Thanhha Lai and “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park, the refugee child have to deal with traumatizing events occurring during their journey. First, Najmah is a teenager living in Kunduz, Afghanistan who had to flee to Peshawar, Pakistan to find her brother and father, who have been taken by the Taliban, Salva is an 11 year old boy who had to flee from his village in South Sudan who has set out to find his family and Ha, a ten year old girl who had to flee her home because the Communist will take over Saigon. Secondly, all of the refugees have to flee their homes because of their country being at war; the Taliban, the Sudanese Civil war

Even when she knew that she couldn’t get anything back,but she still had faith,she still trusted and believed in god. No matter what may have happened she still gave god all the praise and the glory that one person could give. For she knew she had a home in heaven, so there was no need for her to worry about the things that she has lost because she will have more/has gained more in heaven than she has down here on earth. She used it as a metaphor to state her eternal life in heaven that god as built in her favor. She will rise up to see god one day,so why worry and complain.

The event of Katie’s daughter being taken away illustrates “healthy confusion” because the event is very sorrowful and painful, but also Katie shows her trust in the Lord which brings joy and happiness. Something like this can teach a lesson to all of us. Most good things come through tough times. In this situation, Katie learns to trust deeper in Jesus, and to know that He has His perfect plan in mind. Katie went through a very tough situation, but we all do in our own lives. Through this experience, Katie found the good in trusting in

These two statements are very important because they are the backbone of the whole book. These are the strongest parts that support the women she is. She is so hand in hand with God that she doesn’t even once criticize the reasons she’s in captive but as I have stated before, she blames herself for not praying enough. In the sixth remove she explains her circumstance, her being surrounded by her former enemies amidst no Christians at all but herself. She exclaims, “Oh the experience that I have had of the goodness of God, to me and mine!” Without any form of disbelief she praises the kindness of God. The beauty of her relationship with God is that she mentions no matter what kind of situation she is in whether it be near death or with luxuries. And she sees every good thing that happens to her as a sign of God. To sum it up, everything that has happened to her was pre-planned and the grace of God.

Mary Rowlandson states, “Yet the Lord still shewed mercy to me, and helped me; and as he wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the

Jesus was able to teach the woman that He is the Living Water. Like Nicodemus, she was confused at first and asked how he would be able to give her water when he had nothing to draw it out of the well with. Jesus explained to her that what he would give to her would be water that whosoever drink of it, would never thirst and would spring them up to everlasting life. When she realized the Jesus is the Messiah, she was able to discern that

violent things she had endured. She always talks to God asking him to give her

Verses four to six focus mainly on how to be fruitful, and the last set of verses, which are verses seven to eleven, focus on the results that come from being fruitful. Jesus took the time to speak on these three sections because he wanted to make sure that his disciples would know what