Thematic Bible: Examples of the persistence of


Thematic Bible



The mother of the child said, “As the Lord lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So Elisha arose and followed her. Verse ConceptsBeing A MotherCompanionshipMothers Love For Her Children

When she pressured him day after day with her words and pleaded with him, he was annoyed to death. Verse ConceptsAsceticism, TypesIrritationTroubling Individualsnagging

Now the woman was a Gentile (Greek), a Syrophoenician by nationality. And she kept pleading with Him to drive the demon out of her daughter. Verse Conceptsdemons, Kinds ofBeggarsGreeksLove, And The WorldJesus Casting Out Demons

yet because this widow continues to bother me, I will give her justice and legal protection; otherwise by continually coming she [will be an intolerable annoyance and she] will wear me out.’” Verse ConceptsHeartlessnessTroubling IndividualsPersistenceperserverancehelptirednaggingvindicationharassment