Quotes About Desperation

And there were two blind men sitting beside the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”

The crowd admonished them to be silent, but they cried out all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”

Then a leper came to Jesus, begging on his knees: “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”

A synagogue leader named Jairus arrived, and seeing Jesus, he fell at His feet

and pleaded with Him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Please come and place Your hands on her, so that she will be healed and live.”

She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse.

When the woman heard about Jesus, she came up through the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak.

For she kept saying, “If only I touch His garments, I will be healed.”

Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit soon heard about Jesus, and she came and fell at His feet.

Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.

“It often throws him into the fire or into the water, trying to kill him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Many people admonished him to be silent, but he cried out all the louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

but he pulled free of the linen cloth and ran away naked.

Just then a synagogue leader named Jairus came and fell at Jesusí feet. He begged Him to come to his house,

because his only daughter, who was about twelve, was dying. As Jesus went with him, the crowds pressed around Him,

including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.

Suddenly a man in the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, for he is my only child.

I begged Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable.”

After he had spent all he had, a severe famine swept through that country, and he began to be in need.

So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.

He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich manís table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

So he cried out, ëFather Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. For I am in agony in this fire.í