Thematic Bible: Examples of the persistence of


Thematic Bible



Then the mother of the boy said, "{As Yahweh lives} and {as your soul lives}, I will surely not leave you." So he got up and went after her. Verse ConceptsBeing A MotherCompanionshipMothers Love For Her Children

And because she nagged him day after day with her words, and pestered him, {his soul grew impatient to the point of death}. Verse ConceptsAsceticism, TypesIrritationTroubling Individualsnagging

Now the woman was a Greek--a Syrophoenician by nationality--and she was asking him that he would expel the demon from her daughter. Verse Conceptsdemons, Kinds ofBeggarsGreeksLove, And The WorldJesus Casting Out Demons

yet because this widow is causing trouble for me, I will grant her justice, so that she does not wear me down in the end [by her] coming back!'" Verse ConceptsHeartlessnessTroubling IndividualsPersistenceperserverancehelptirednaggingvindicationharassment