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Then [Jesus] said to them all, "If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will save it. (Luke 9:23-24, HCSB)

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Thursday, May 12, 2022

John Bunyan: "On Behalf of Women"

 From The Pilgrim's Progress, Second Part

I will now speak on the behalf of women, to take away their reproach. For as death and the curse came into the world by a woman, so also did life and health: 'God sent forth his Son made of a woman'.

Yea, to show how much those [women] that came after [Eve] did abhor the act of their mother, [they], in the Old Testament, coveted children, if happily this or that woman might be the mother of the Saviour of the world. I will say again, that, when the Saviour was come, women rejoiced in him before either man or angel. 


I read not that ever any man did give unto Christ so much as one coin; but the women followed him, and ministered to him of their substance. 'Twas a woman that washed his feet with tears; and a woman that anointed his body to the burial. They were women that wept when he was going to the cross; and women that followed him from the cross; and that sat by his sepulchre when he was buried. They were women that were first with him at his resurrection morn; and women that brought tidings first to his disciples that he was risen from the dead.

Women, therefore, are highly favoured; and show by these things that they are sharers with us in the grace of life.

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