William Holman Hunt (1894)
Following on his presentation of “The Lord’s Prayer,” and leading into a promise that God will respond to prayer, Jesus offers a very human portrait of a person who will grant another’s request, if not because he’s feeling benevolent at least because the petitioner has been insistent and he wants him to go away.
It’s actually pretty funny, and — despite our long-standing habit of reading the scriptures with grim solemnity — I suspect that it was received that way by his audience.
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