because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me.’”
Four times they sent me this same proposal, and each time I gave the same reply.
But he did not say a word in answer to her. His disciples came and asked him, “Send her away, for she keeps calling out after us.”
I tell you, if he does not get up to give him the loaves because of their friendship, he will get up to give him whatever he needs because of his persistence. The Answer to Prayer.
And a widow in that town used to come to him and say, ‘Render a just decision for me against my adversary.’
The people walking in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent, but he kept calling out all the more, “Son of David, have pity on me!”
No, I drive my body and train it, for fear that, after having preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
She pressed him continually and pestered him till he was deathly weary of it.