Thematic Bible: Examples of the persistence of


Thematic Bible



The mother of the child said, "As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So Elisha got up and followed her back. Verse ConceptsBeing A MotherCompanionshipMothers Love For Her Children

She nagged him every day and pressured him until he was sick to death of it. Verse ConceptsAsceticism, TypesIrritationTroubling Individualsnagging

The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter. Verse Conceptsdemons, Kinds ofBeggarsGreeksLove, And The WorldJesus Casting Out Demons

yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.'" Verse ConceptsHeartlessnessTroubling IndividualsPersistenceperserverancehelptirednaggingvindicationharassment

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