Luke 18:3

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

There was [also] a widow in that [same] town who kept coming to the judge saying, ‘Grant me a [favorable] judgment against my opponent.’

Cross References

Matthew 5:25

[In another case], come to terms with the person suing you as soon as possible, [even] on your way [to court], so he does not take you before the judge, and then the judge turn you over to the officer and you be sent to prison.

Luke 18:2

He said, “There was a certain judge in this town who did not revere God nor respect man.

Luke 18:4

And for some time the judge refused to do it. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not revere God or respect man,

Luke 18:5

I will grant her a [favorable] judgment because she keeps bothering me [about the matter] and is about to exhaust my patience by her persistent visits.’”