The Importunate Widow¹

The Law: Why Bother? A Parable on Seeking Justice

(from the Gospel of Luke)

IN A CERTAIN CITY there was a judge who neither feared God nor regarded man; and there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Vindicate me against my adversary.’ For a while he refused; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow bothers me, I will vindicate her, or she will wear me out by her continual coming.’

Endnotes

¹ The Holy Bible, Revised Standard Version (Catholic Edition) (London: Catholic Truth Society, 1966) (Luke 18:2-8). ⇑