Bible study in plain language: Luke 18:2-6

Jul 20, 2014 05:29


[1] Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. [2] He said,

“In Kasturba Nagar, the slum neighborhood in the city of Nagpur, India, there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. [3] In that city there was an untouchable who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my rapist.' [4] For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, [5] yet because this woman keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not finally come and stab her rapist to death on the shiny white marble floor of the Nagpur district courtroom shortly followed by 200 or so of the other women this rapist assaulted standing with her, each claiming to be Spartacus, all asking to be arrested too... and so that it doth not make the news.’”

[6] And Jesus said, “At a minimum, be like this unjust judge. Or you'll be leaving it up to God. And it doesn't look pretty after that."

events, rape, rape culture, bible study

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