Thematic Bible: As widows
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As he approached the entrance to the city, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother's only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was with her.
Now there happened to be a certain woman who had been the wife of a member of the Guild of Prophets. She cried out to Elisha, "My husband who served you has died, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. But a creditor has come to take away my children into indentured servitude!"
So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they took him upstairs. All the widows gathered around Peter, crying and showing him all the shirts and coats Dorcas had made while she was still with them.
and then as a widow for 84 years. She never left the Temple, but continued to worship there night and day with times of fasting and prayer.
"Get up, move to Zarephath in Sidon, and stay there. Look! I've commanded a widow to sustain you there."
In those days, as the number of the disciples was growing larger and larger, a complaint was made by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.
Then a destitute widow came and dropped in two small copper coins, worth about a cent.
In that city there was also a widow who kept coming to him and saying, "Grant me justice against my adversary.'
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