Thematic Bible: As widows
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When he came near the gate of the city he saw people carrying a dead person. It was the only son of a widow. Many people were with her.
The widow of a member of a group of prophets said to Elisha: My husband has died! As you know, he was a man who respected God. A man to whom he owed money came to take away my two sons as slaves in payment for my husband's debt.
Peter went to them right a way. When he arrived they brought him into the upper chamber. All the widows stood by him weeping and showing the coats and garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.
She had been a widow eighty-four years. She never left the temple. She worshipped and fasted with supplications day and night.
Go now to Zarephath, in Zidon, and live there. I have given orders to a widow woman there to see that you have food.
The number of disciples increased at that time. A murmuring arose on the part of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.
A poor widow came along and dropped in two mites.
There was a widow in that same city. She went to him asking for legal protection from her adversary.
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