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A kneeling woman does not have far to fall, and by all rights Jesus' insult should have floored her on the spot.
People in Jesus’ time thought that illness arose from people’s sins in a fairly immediate cause-and-effect relationship. Today we are more apt to think that illness afflicts us in a more random way.
by John Buchanan
by Barbara Brown Taylor