Chapter 83: United in the Cause of Right

v. 21: Justice, Truth, Equality, and Right

v. 25: “United in the cause of right we stand; divided we will fall.”

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In 📍 Sychar Jesus taught the people in the marketplace.
A man obsessed 👿 was brought to him. The wicked spirit that possessed the man was full of violence 🔪 and lust 💋, and often threw his victim to the ground 🥋.
And Jesus spoke aloud and said: “Base spirit, loose your hold upon the vitals of this man, and go back to your own.”
And then the spirit begged that he might go into the body of a dog that stood nearby.
But Jesus said: “Why harm a helpless dog 🐶? Its life is just as dear 🫀 to it as mine to me.”
“It is not yours to throw the burden of your sin on any living thing.”
“By your own deeds and evil thoughts you have brought all these perils on yourself.”
“By thus obsessing man you make your own conditions only conditions doubly sad 😞.”
The wicked spirit left the man and went unto his own. The man looked up in thankfulness and said: “Praise God.”
And many of the people brought their sick 😷, and Jesus spoke the Word, and they were healed 🧬.
The ruler of the synagogue, and all the priests were much disturbed when told that Jesus from Jerusalem was preaching in the town.
They thought that he had come to proselyte and stir strife among Samaritans.
And so they sent an officer to bring him to the synagogue that he might give a reason for his presence in the town 🚨.
But Jesus said to him who came: “Go back and tell the priests and ruler of the synagogue that I am not engaged in crime.”
“I come to bind up broken hearts ❤️‍🩹, to heal the sick 🩺, and cast 🗣️ the evil spirits out of those obsessed.”
“Tell them, their prophets spoke of me 💬; that I come to break no law, but to fulfill the highest law 📜.”
The man returned and told the priests and ruler of the synagogue what Jesus said.