When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they acknowledged God’s justice, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every kind of garden herb, and yet you ignore justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

Now there was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my opponent.’

yet because this widow is bothering me, I will give her justice; otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out.’”

now, will God not bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night, and will He delay long for them?

I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?”