Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible












As He approached the gate of the town, look, there was being carried out a dead man, his mother's only son, and she was a widow! A considerable crowd of townspeople were with her. Verse ConceptsGatesCrowdsLonelinessWidowsCrowds Around JesusThe Only ChildCarrying Dead BodiesOnly Child Of PeopleActual WidowsCorpses Of Other PeopleDeath Of A Mother


So Peter at once got up and went with them. When he reached there, they took him to the room upstairs, and all the widows took their stand around him, crying and showing him the shirts and coats that Dorcas had made while she was still with them. Verse ConceptsClothBereavement, Experience OfStairwaysDressMournersWidowsClothing The NeedyOuter GarmentsInner GarmentsActual WidowsUpper RoomsMourning The Death Of Otherssisterhood

She was very old; from girlhood she had lived seven years with a husband, and now had been a widow eighty years. She never left the temple, but continued to worship all day and all night with fastings and prayers. Verse ConceptsWorship Day And NightFasting, Practice OfFasting, Nature OfFasting, Examples OfAsceticism, TypesNightPrayerfulnessPrayer, Practicalities OfReligionSleeplessnessWidowsActual WidowsFasting RegularlyFastingFasting And PrayerServing The ChurchWaiting Till Marriage



Then a poor widow came and dropped in two little copper coins, which make scarcely a cent. Verse ConceptsCoinageGenerous Giving ExamplesCoinsWidowsActual WidowsMoney For The TempleGiving Money To The ChurchThe poorWorthValue

And in that city there was a widow who continued to come to him and say, 'Give me justice and protection from my opponent.' Verse ConceptsWidowsSaying RepeatedlyRevengeProtection From Enemiesvindication