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ESV — Luke 2:37; Luke 18:1-5

37 and then as a widow until she was eighty-four.1 She did not depart from the temple, qworshiping with rfasting and prayer night and day.

Footnotes

[1] 2:37 Or as a widow for eighty-four years

The Parable of the Persistent Widow

18 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought ralways to pray and not slose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who tneither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, u‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’”